{"id":384388,"date":"2010-03-03T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78224"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:31:23","slug":"with-all-those-media-appearances-who%e2%80%99s-got-time-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/384388","title":{"rendered":"With All Those Media Appearances, Who\u2019s Got Time to Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Her quest for celebrity, it seems, has trumped her duties as the elected representative of Minnesota&#8217;s 6th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/55139\/bachmanns-missed-votes-media-appearances\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An analysis by the Minnesota Independent shows that Bachmann has missed  more votes than any member of Minnesota\u2019s congressional delegation in  the 111th Congress \u2014 even after subtracting votes missed when Bachmann  left to spend time with an ill family member. Twenty of the 47 remaining  votes Bachmann missed occurred on days when the Sixth District  Republican had media appearances scheduled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Her quest for celebrity, it seems, has trumped her duties as the elected representative of Minnesota&#8217;s 6th Congressional District. The Minnesota Independent reports: An analysis by the Minnesota Independent shows that Bachmann has missed more votes than any member of Minnesota\u2019s congressional delegation in the 111th Congress \u2014 even after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384388","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}