{"id":323212,"date":"2010-02-15T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76615"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:51:36","slug":"adventures-in-polite-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323212","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Polite Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Martin writes about<\/a> the possible, if unlikely, “nightmare” scenario of cafe owner Tamyra D’Ippolito succeeding in her fringe campaign to get on the Democratic ballot to replace Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). D’Ippolito has not reported any campaign funds raised<\/a> and has not provided a clear estimate of the number of signatures she’s\u00a0gathered. (She’s required to submit at least 500 valid signatures in each of the state’s nine congressional districts.) And between the lines of Martin’s report, one can see a candidate who is not ready for prime time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She said she was committed to the race in part because she was sick of the male-dominated Democratic Party in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much an old boys club in Indiana and I\u2019m out to break it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Before hanging up she added that she wanted to offer a \u201creminder:\u201d \u201cIndiana is 52 percent women.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Ippolito also suggested that Bayh\u2019s announcement was timed so that the state\u2019s top Democratic officials could hand-pick his successor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019re smoking cigars there, but the decision has already been made,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Democrats I talk to think D’Ippolito’s only path to the ballot would be a quasi-dirty trick by Republicans to help her out, the sort of thing some operatives pulled in 2006 in an unsuccessful bid to get Carl Romanelli on the Pennsylvania ballot as a Green candidate for U.S. Senate — before that,\u00a0the\u00a0efforts by some operatives to\u00a0help Ralph Nader get on presidential ballots.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t a candidate who can deploy a political machine or war room to get the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Martin writes about the possible, if unlikely, “nightmare” scenario of cafe owner Tamyra D’Ippolito succeeding in her fringe campaign to get on the Democratic ballot to replace Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). D’Ippolito has not reported any campaign funds raised and has not provided a clear estimate of the number of signatures she’s\u00a0gathered. (She’s required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}