{"id":3163,"date":"2014-04-23T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2014-04-23T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:00:49","slug":"progressive-neighbors-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Neighbors Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PNWebanner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PNWebanner.jpg\" alt=\"PNWebanner\" width=\"960\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PNWebanner.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PNWebanner-300x40.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a previous post (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2914\">Not So Progressive Neighbors<\/a>&#8220;), I detailed PN&#8217;s problematic, unethical endorsement process. Among other criticisms I made was their inexplicable decision not to endorse incumbent Del. Ana Sol Guti\u00e9rrez:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other choices seem as bizarre. In District 18, Del. Ana Sol Guti\u00e9rrez has long been a stalwart staunch progressive. How on earth can she, the first Latina elected to public office in Montgomery County who passionately favors left-wing policies to reduce economic inequality, not be progressive enough?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ve quietly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveneighborsmd.org\/2014_june_primary_endorsements\">changed their mind and endorsed Del. Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a> &#8220;after input from our supporters and reconsideration by the Steering Committee.&#8221; Disgruntlement with their flawed process has gone beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2855\">many Democratic incumbents who wouldn&#8217;t even respond to their questionnaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like PN has taken the first step towards the first step of admitting that they have a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post (&#8220;Not So Progressive Neighbors&#8220;), I detailed PN&#8217;s problematic, unethical endorsement process. Among other criticisms I made was their inexplicable decision not to endorse incumbent Del. Ana Sol Guti\u00e9rrez: Other choices seem as bizarre. In District 18, Del. Ana Sol Guti\u00e9rrez has long been a stalwart staunch progressive. How on earth can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Progressive Neighbors Caves<\/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":[5],"tags":[1490,1457],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-neighbors","tag-ana-sol-gutierrez","tag-progressive-neighbors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-P1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}