{"id":448359,"date":"2010-03-19T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79821"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:59:47","slug":"congressman-pushes-unsourced-rumors-of-dems-trading-votes-for-jobs-accused-dems-push-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448359","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Pushes Unsourced Rumors of Dems Trading Votes for Jobs; Accused Dems Push Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared<\/a> an unsourced rumor with her readers:<\/p>\n

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Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) who announced his retirement from Congress has been promised the job of NASA administrator in exchange for his vote, and Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), another retiring Democrat, has been promised an appointment as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in exchange for his vote.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to note any job announcements from this Tennessee duo post-House retirement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Interesting, indeed! No sources, but that didn’t prevent the rumor from reaching all the way to Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) notes for a speech on the House floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The accused congressmen say, respectively, that they’re “shocked” at this “affront.” When pushed, Chaffetz refused the name his source.<\/p>\n

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On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared an unsourced rumor with her readers: Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) who announced his retirement from Congress has been promised the job of NASA administrator in exchange for his vote, and Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), another retiring Democrat, has been […]<\/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-448359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448359","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=448359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}