{"id":3116,"date":"2014-04-21T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:36:13","slug":"jones-rodwell-hangs-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"Jones-Rodwell Hangs It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JonesRodwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JonesRodwell.jpg\" alt=\"JonesRodwell\" width=\"597\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JonesRodwell.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JonesRodwell-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2164\">hottest Senate primaries<\/a> is no more. The <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/2014\/04\/21\/jones-rodwell-calls-it-a-career\/\"><em>Daily Record<\/em> reports<\/a> that Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell has decided to retire from the Maryland Senate (h\/t Neal Carter).<\/p>\n<p>As I blogged previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2164\">redistricting had dealt Jones-Rodwell a poor hand<\/a> by placing her in a district far more favorable to her primary opponent, Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D 10), who lives in the portion of the old District 10 that is now part of the new District 44, is challenging incumbent Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell (D 44). The new district contains roughly twice as many people from Nathan-Pulliam\u2019s old district, though it bears Jones-Rodwell\u2019s district number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both Jones-Rodwell and Nathan-Pulliam struck me as assets to Baltimore in the General Assembly and I was unhappy to see them redistricted into the same seat. Sen. Jones-Rodwell&#8217;s voice will be missed from that body but hopefully not from Baltimore. Fortunately, Del. Nathan-Pulliam service in the House gives her a strong leg up navigating the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hottest Senate primaries is no more. The Daily Record reports that Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell has decided to retire from the Maryland Senate (h\/t Neal Carter). As I blogged previously, redistricting had dealt Jones-Rodwell a poor hand by placing her in a district far more favorable to her primary opponent, Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jones-Rodwell Hangs It Up<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[208,509],"tags":[1635,631,837,836,1637],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baltimore","category-district-44","tag-district-44","tag-primaries-to-watch-2","tag-retirement","tag-shirely-nathan-pulliam","tag-verna-jones-rodwell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-Og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}