{"id":9303,"date":"2006-12-11T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9303.html"},"modified":"2006-12-11T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:59:30","slug":"mondays-political-round-up-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mondays-political-round-up-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s political round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn&#8217;t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n<p>* One of the three undecided House races from this year&#8217;s midterm elections appears to have wrapped up. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLITICS\/blogs\/politicalticker\/2006\/12\/recount-confirms-gop-rep-pryce-wins.html\">AP reported<\/a> this morning that Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce has narrowly defeated Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy. Pryce led by about a thousand voted on Election Night, sparking an automatic recount. Ultimately, Pryce picked up an additional seven votes.<\/p>\n<p>* In another undecided House race, incumbent Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) and former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D) will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/metro\/stories\/MYSA121106.06A.Clinton.2f9ce22.html\">face off tomorrow<\/a> in a run-off election in Texas&#8217; 23rd congressional district. Democratic officials consider the race winnable and former President Bill Clinton was in the district yesterday to campaign on Rodriguez&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>* Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) had decided to retire in advance of the 2006 cycle, but was talked into one more campaign by House GOP leaders. In an unexpected twist, Gallegly, Roll Call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/52_57\/politics\/16295-1.html\">reported<\/a> today, &#8220;has now scrapped his exit plans altogether and is preparing to run for re-election in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is expected to announce today that he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/chi-061210daley-story,1,7657571.story\">seeking re-election<\/a> to a sixth term. If successful, he&#8217;ll break his father&#8217;s record for longevity.<\/p>\n<p>* Many 2008 hopefuls are publishing new books in advance of the race, but Sen. Hillary Clinton is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/09\/AR2006120900588.html\">re-releasing an old one<\/a>. &#8220;It Takes a Village&#8221; will go on sale tomorrow, 10 years after the original was published. The WaPo reported, &#8220;In a newly written introduction, Clinton &#8216;reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade &#8212; from the impact of the Internet to new research in early child development and education,&#8217; according to her publisher, Simon &#038; Schuster. Clinton also discusses such issues as security, the environment and the national debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn&#8217;t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * One of the three undecided House races from this year&#8217;s midterm elections appears to have wrapped up. The AP reported this morning that Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce has narrowly defeated Democrat Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}