{"id":2044,"date":"2014-02-27T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2014-02-27T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T02:21:50","slug":"d13-shenanigans-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"D13 Shenanigans Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvK1F-Thrzk\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So the machinations just keep on going in the District 13 House of Delegates race. Earlier today, I reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=1995\">D13 featured the unusual spectacle of husband (Nayab Siddiqui) running against his wife (Janet Siddiqui) and a niece (Vanessa Atterbeary) challenging her uncle (Frank Turner).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was the last day to withdraw from the race (i.e. get off the ballot), and lo and behold, School Board Member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.state.md.us\/elections\/2014\/primary_candidates\/gen_listings_2014_1_01613.html\">Janet Siddiqui has dropped out<\/a> of the race. She had formed a slate with incumbent Dels. Frank Turner and Shane Pendergrass but not her husband.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;All in the Family&#8221; aspect seems less strange (not to mention very awkward at home) than very calculating. Janet Siddiqui&#8217;s withdrawal from the race leaves it open for husband, Nayab Siddiqui, who is not currently an elected official.<\/p>\n<p>Del. Frank Turner may have had an inkling that this might happen and encouraged his niece, <a href=\"http:\/\/maryland-politics.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/atterbeary-breaks-campaign-rules-twice.html\">former District 18 Candidate Vanessa Atterbeary<\/a>, to jump in too. Pure speculation but it sure makes a lot more sense than the idea that she wanted to take her uncle&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/howard\/columbia\/ph-janet-siddiqui-withdraws-district-13,0,7520635.story\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a> has more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the machinations just keep on going in the District 13 House of Delegates race. Earlier today, I reported that D13 featured the unusual spectacle of husband (Nayab Siddiqui) running against his wife (Janet Siddiqui) and a niece (Vanessa Atterbeary) challenging her uncle (Frank Turner). Today was the last day to withdraw from the race &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D13 Shenanigans Continue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[442,204],"tags":[1621,444,416,450,448,1561],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-13","category-howard","tag-district-13","tag-frank-turner","tag-howard-county","tag-janet-siddiqui","tag-nayeb-siddiqui","tag-vanessa-atterbeary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-wY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","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=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}