{"id":6818,"date":"2016-06-02T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2016-06-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:35:03","slug":"former-gop-delegate-candidate-jumps-to-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP Delegate Candidate Jumps to the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Edptychange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Edptychange.jpg\" alt=\"Edptychange\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Edptychange.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Edptychange-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Edptychange-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former District 15 Republican Delegate Candidate Ed Edmundson announced his switch from R to D on Facebook yesterday, stating: &#8220;Done and Done. Bye-Bye GOP. I will not be part of a Party that picks a racist bigot to head the top of the ticket.&#8221; A real loss for the Montgomery GOP because they &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3890\">desperately need people like him<\/a>,&#8221; as I commented in this space two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Gov. Larry Hogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6686\">continues his silence<\/a> on &#8220;racist bigot&#8221; Donald Trump becoming the nominee of his party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former District 15 Republican Delegate Candidate Ed Edmundson announced his switch from R to D on Facebook yesterday, stating: &#8220;Done and Done. Bye-Bye GOP. I will not be part of a Party that picks a racist bigot to head the top of the ticket.&#8221; A real loss for the Montgomery GOP because they &#8220;desperately need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former GOP Delegate Candidate Jumps to the Democrats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[170],"tags":[811,968],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-15","tag-ed-edmundson","tag-larry-hogan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1LY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","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=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}