{"id":10037,"date":"2013-02-27T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2013-02-27T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:32:12","slug":"the-tears-of-lapierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/the-tears-of-lapierre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tears of LaPierre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne LaPierre, raving propagandist for the gun industry, must want a little cheese with his whine this morning.  For the Record, I am not a fan of New York City Mayor Bloomberg, not do I approve of buying elections.  Nevertheless, I would by lying, if I did not admit to enjoying the NRA\u2019s sniveling over being bested at their own game.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Robin Kelly handily won the Illinois 2nd Congressional District’s primary election Tuesday to become the Democratic nominee in the race to replace disgraced Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., all but confirming she will be heading to Washington.<\/p>\n

The former State Representative and Cook County administrator won the special primary with 54 percent of the vote in the crowded race<\/a>, according to WGN, with 306 of the district’s 545 precincts reporting. The Associated Press has also called the race for Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Kelly is expected to coast to an easy victory in the April 9 special general election, thanks to the district leaning overwhelmingly Democratic.<\/p>\n

Kelly’s victory speech focused on gun control, which emerged as a key issue leading up<\/a> to the Tuesday primary\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow had coverage.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

With 17 candidates in the race, it\u2019s amazing that anyone got 54%, especially since Bloomberg never even endorsed Kelly.  He just opposed Halvorson, the Blue Dog DINO gun-nut.  Kudos and congrats to Robyn!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wayne LaPierre, raving propagandist for the gun industry, must want a little cheese with his whine this morning.  For the Record, I am not a fan of New York City Mayor Bloomberg, not do I approve of buying elections.  Nevertheless, I would by lying, if I did not admit to enjoying the NRA\u2019s sniveling over […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}