{"id":10384,"date":"2023-04-06T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2023-04-06T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:47:05","slug":"wisconsin-and-chicago-elections-expose-liabilities-in-gop-case-for-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10384","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin and Chicago elections expose liabilities in GOP case for \u201924"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Left-leaning Janet Protasiewicz won resoundingly in her bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, despite being labeled \u201cNo Jail Janet\u201d by her opponents. Democrats noted that her opponent, Dan Kelly, was connected to a plan to reverse the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, Brandon Johnson, a Chicago union organizer, was hammered by his rival for previously leaning into the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement. But he stressed that his opponent Paul Vallas was not actually a Democrat, forcing him to repeatedly defend his credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Protasiewicz and Johnson prevailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/wisconsin-chicago-elections-expose-gop-liabilities-for-24-00090679\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/05\/wisconsin-chicago-elections-expose-gop-liabilities-for-24-00090679<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Left-leaning Janet Protasiewicz won resoundingly in her bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, despite being labeled \u201cNo Jail Janet\u201d by her opponents. Democrats noted that her opponent, Dan Kelly, was connected to a plan to reverse the 2020 election results.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Brandon Johnson, a Chicago union organizer, was hammered by his rival for previously leaning into the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement. But he stressed that his opponent Paul Vallas was not actually a Democrat, forcing him to repeatedly defend his credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Both Protasiewicz and Johnson prevailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1501,372,198,1595,528,291],"class_list":["post-10384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-chicago","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-mayor","tag-supreme-court","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10385,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/10385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}