{"id":8309,"date":"2017-07-31T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2017-07-30T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:30:07","slug":"blogs-were-right-about-ridiculous-delaney-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Blogs Were Right About \u201cRidiculous\u201d Delaney Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The John Delaney for President story was started by a blog.\u00a0 It was kept alive by blogs.\u00a0 And now the bloggers, irresponsible rascals that they are, have been proven right.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Miner of A Miner Detail kicked off the Delaney for President story on <a href=\"https:\/\/aminerdetail.com\/bigger-plans-governor-john-delaney\/\">May 3<\/a>.\u00a0 He had two pieces of information: a prediction by former Attorney General Doug Gansler that Delaney would be running for President and a claim by MSNBC host Chris Matthews that Delaney had opened an office in Iowa.\u00a0 That was enough to get The Daily Record\u2019s Bryan Sears to investigate.\u00a0 Sears <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/2017\/05\/03\/delaney-president-matthews-msnbc-iowa\/\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will McDonald, a spokesman for Delaney\u2019s campaign, said Delaney is not considering a run for president or opening an office in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Delaney does not have an office in Iowa or any other place other than Maryland and Washington, D.C.,\u201d McDonald said in an email. \u201cAs he has said before, the Congressman and his wife plan to make an announcement regarding a possible run for Maryland\u2019s governor by the end of June.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bs-md-sixth-district-midterm-20170428-story.html\">followed up<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rumors have swirled recently that Delaney is also taking a look at a run for president in 2020 \u2014 talk that was amplified when MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Kathleen&#8217;s husband, said during his program last week the congressman was setting up an office in Iowa. A Delaney spokesman denied that his boss had office space in the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On May 11, MCM asked Delaney directly if he was running for President.\u00a0 Delaney said, \u201cIt was as ridiculous then as it is now\u2026 I\u2019m not running for President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hrj7hNnwRCk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So the story was dead, yeah?\u00a0 The problem was that the blogs wouldn\u2019t let it die.<\/p>\n<p>Right after Miner\u2019s story, Seventh State noted that Delaney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7896\">had three federal fundraisers scheduled in May and June<\/a>.\u00a0 If Delaney were running for Governor, why was he still raising federal money?\u00a0 It did not seem necessary for a Congressional run as he could self-fund such a race.\u00a0 Miner <a href=\"https:\/\/aminerdetail.com\/3153-2\/\">followed up on May 8<\/a> with a statement from Delaney\u2019s spokesman shooting down speculation about his wife running for office and emphasizing his consideration of a race for Governor.\u00a0 And on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8130\">June 15<\/a>, Seventh State noted even more federal fundraising by Delaney.<\/p>\n<p>And now we have it: John Delaney \u2018s Washington Post op-ed\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/john-delaney-why-im-running-for-president\/2017\/07\/28\/02460ae4-73b7-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.3ea66644067d\">Why I\u2019m Running for President.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hail to the Great Big Mouths of Doug Gansler and Chris Matthews.\u00a0 Hail to Ryan Miner for being first and sticking with his scoop even though few other outlets bothered to link to his work.\u00a0 Hail to John Delaney for saying it was \u201cridiculous\u201d that he was running for President and then confirming the rumor in his own words in the Washington Post.\u00a0 And above all, hail to irresponsible rogue blogs.\u00a0 Where would we be without them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. The John Delaney for President story was started by a blog.\u00a0 It was kept alive by blogs.\u00a0 And now the bloggers, irresponsible rascals that they are, have been proven right. Ryan Miner of A Miner Detail kicked off the Delaney for President story on May 3.\u00a0 He had two pieces of information: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogs Were Right About \u201cRidiculous\u201d Delaney Story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151],"tags":[1545,912,1995],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-john-delaney","tag-ryan-miner"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}