{"id":12203,"date":"2019-10-21T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:05:25","slug":"jealouss-latest-float-vaporizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12203","title":{"rendered":"Jealous\u2019s Latest Float Vaporizes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ben Jealous had invited speculation that he\u2019d run for mayor of Baltimore but pulled out<\/a> as the race picked up. In the wake of Rep. Elijah Cummings\u2019s sad passing, history has repeated itself at a faster pace around the open seat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jealous said in a text that his attention is \u201con running the kids to baseball and rowing practices, keeping door open to run for governor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Weird how the kids don\u2019t need to attend practice in gubernatorial\nelection years. Of course, it\u2019s no stranger than the Democrat who got blown\naway with just 43.5% in a stellar Democratic year thinking that he should run\nagain. That\u2019s a lower\nshare than received by any Democratic nominee<\/a> in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, Jealous would have been an odd successor to Cummings. While Jealous is a Juul consultant<\/a> , Cummings broke ground in the fight against big tobacco:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Maryland House of Delegates, where Mr. Cummings served from 1983 to 1996, he championed a ban on alcohol and tobacco ads on inner-city billboards in Baltimore \u2014 the first prohibition of its kind in a major U.S. city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The 1980s were the glory days when you could still smoke on airplanes and Joe Camel marketed smoking as cool to kids. Ben Jealous\u2019s client, Juul, has been accused<\/a> of similarly targeting teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sales campaigns for Juuls \u2014 now hugely popular with teenagers across the nation \u2014 are at the heart of a federal investigation into whether the company intentionally marketed its devices to youth. The attorney general of Massachusetts, also investigating the company, contends that Juul has been luring teenagers to try the product and has introduced many to nicotine.<\/p>

\u201cFrom our perspective, this is not about getting adults to stop smoking,\u201d the Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey, said in an interview. \u201cThis is about getting kids to start vaping, and make money and have them as customers for life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Elijah Cummings took the battle for kids against big tobacco to Annapolis. “Progressive” Ben Jealous just took the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Jealous had invited speculation that he\u2019d run for mayor of Baltimore but pulled out as the race picked up. In the wake of Rep. Elijah Cummings\u2019s sad passing, history has repeated itself at a faster pace around the open seat: Jealous said in a text that his attention is \u201con running the kids to … Continue reading Jealous\u2019s Latest Float Vaporizes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2237,2296],"tags":[1977,1523,2298,2288,1278],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-jealous","category-seventh-congressional-district","tag-ben-jealous","tag-elijah-cummings","tag-joe-camel","tag-juul","tag-vaping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3aP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions\/12206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}