{"id":326939,"date":"2010-02-16T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76678"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:17:22","slug":"d%e2%80%99ippolito-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326939","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Ippolito Falls Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oh-so-brief conservative push to get fringe cafe owner Tamyra d&#8217;Ippolito on the Indiana ballot as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seems to have hit the reef. Reid Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/in_dem_says_she.php\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An official in Marion Co. (IN) tells <em>Hotline OnCall<\/em> d&#8217;Ippolito turned in just 3 signatures in the 7th CD, the district with the highest percentage of Dem voters. The noon deadline has passed, meaning d&#8217;Ippolito failed to meet the requirements to get on the ballot. She would have been required to submit 4,500 signatures, including at least 500 from each of the state&#8217;s 9 districts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If she falls short in just one district, she&#8217;s off the ballot. It&#8217;s been a bad afternoon for d&#8217;Ippolito backers, who thought just an hour ago that she had a chance. Still, Erick Erickson of RedState tells me it was worth the effort.<span id=\"more-76678\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was worth it just to freak out the Democrats,&#8221; said Erickson. &#8220;The reality is the information got on the radar late on the holiday before the noon deadline in the middle of a snow storm. But Proctor &amp; Gamble is sponsoring the Olympics, so I&#8217;m happy to boost Pepto-Bismol sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76680\" title=\"Picture 28\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-28.png\" alt=\"Picture 28\" width=\"483\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oh-so-brief conservative push to get fringe cafe owner Tamyra d&#8217;Ippolito on the Indiana ballot as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seems to have hit the reef. Reid Wilson reports: An official in Marion Co. (IN) tells Hotline OnCall d&#8217;Ippolito turned in just 3 signatures in the 7th CD, the district with the highest [&hellip;]<\/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-326939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326939","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=326939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}