{"id":15154,"date":"2016-01-02T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15154"},"modified":"2016-01-02T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T00:04:43","slug":"down-to-a-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/01\/02\/down-to-a-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"down to a dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/dec\/29\/george-pataki-drop-out-race-2016-republican-nomina\/\">And then there were&#8230; 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Former New York Gov. George Pataki dropped out of the 2016 Republican presidential race Tuesday evening, continuing the winnowing of the huge GOP field and eliminating another long shot hopeful from the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s centrist establishment wing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He made the announcement on NBC affiliates in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina at 9 p.m. EST, using the last of the free airtime he had received from the network to settle an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153equal time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dispute over front-runner Donald Trump having hosted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Saturday Night Live.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is maybe the only interesting tidbit, footnotey that it is, about the 2016 presidential campaign of George Pataki.\u00c2\u00a0 Equal time dealings when one of the candidates does the big comedy show hosting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Although he had a credible resume as the successful governor for more than a decade of one of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest states,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the bias in this here Washington Times&#8230; he just couldn&#8217;t past that draw-back of being <em>successful<\/em> at a <em>political job<\/em> for an <em>extended period of time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The question that Pataki&#8217;s dropping out beggers.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><em>New Hampshire State Sen. Nancy Stiles, a steering committee member for Mr. Pataki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political action committee, would tell The Washington Times only that she received a phone call from the former governor Tuesday and that he wished her a happy new year<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who will heavy-weight Republican king-maker Nancy Stiles now throw her considerable support in backing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were&#8230; 12. Former New York Gov. George Pataki dropped out of the 2016 Republican presidential race Tuesday evening, continuing the winnowing of the huge GOP field and eliminating another long shot hopeful from the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s centrist establishment wing. He made the announcement on NBC affiliates in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}