{"id":1628,"date":"2008-10-28T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2008-10-28T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:37:30","slug":"dc-man-of-the-people-rep-don-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/28\/dc-man-of-the-people-rep-don-young\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Man of the People:  Rep. Don Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens gets some sympathy from likely-future-convicted-felon Rep. Don Young, when Young <a href=\"http:\/\/community.adn.com\/adn\/node\/133433\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have to understand that this was not a jury of his peers. It was in Washington, D.C. , which most people in Washington, D.C., don&#8217;t look very favorably on the Congress because we run them. I don&#8217;t know why anybody didn&#8217;t bring that out. They&#8217;re not a self-governing city like they say they are. We actually make decisions for them. Makes us very, very suspicious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DCist <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2008\/10\/28\/dcs_new_congressional_hero_rep_don.php\">observes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Allow DCist to thank you, Rep. Young, on behalf of all D.C. residents for taking the time to let us know that we&#8217;re petulant, ungrateful subjects. We&#8217;re so glad someone of your level of moral superiority is here to tell us just where we stand in the eyes of the U.S. Congress. It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/166120\">also under federal investigation over your ties to Bill Allen and VECO Corp.<\/a> or anything. You&#8217;re absolutely in a position to tell us who is capable of making an impartial verdict in the Stevens case, and we are not. Thanks for clearing that up.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the gall of this guy. Here he is, under federal investigation, part of what appears to be the most corrupt congressional delegation in history, and he&#8217;s throwing mud at the 600,000 disenfranchised residents of the District of Columbia. Oh, and surprise, surprise, guess who voted against the D.C. Voting Rights Act? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-231\">Rep. Don Young<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens gets some sympathy from likely-future-convicted-felon Rep. Don Young, when Young said: You have to understand that this was not a jury of his peers. It was in Washington, D.C. , which most people in Washington, D.C., don&#8217;t look very favorably on the Congress because we run them. I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}