{"id":130644,"date":"2016-05-10T23:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/10\/its-popcorn-munching-time-in-alabama-politics.html"},"modified":"2016-05-16T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:32:18","slug":"its-popcorn-munching-time-in-alabama-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/10\/its-popcorn-munching-time-in-alabama-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s popcorn-munching time in Alabama politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governor, the speaker of the house, and the chief justice, are all facing criminal charges, calls for impeachment, and \/ or disciplinary hearings. Even more sweet is how those processes each in turn impact the other players.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21698306-circular-web-scandals-has-ensnared-alabamas-leaders-sweet-home'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hCBhynfTVgPWw7pXkhgXJ1eZja8RyV7IjTAmI_G5C13wtzoY7hTdbH10HkEkgdk_gjsveFZxbDDIn9Pt2Ye-mSOkC81r0vmPwYFQbEhY5RkoQ8JZ4sEx-u7U_tIVSkTkKzAxkMMfJ6ArIJaPLmoqGAgBdwskMOwSWnLTxsmeHMCMo9GHIsM3_w=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21698306-circular-web-scandals-has-ensnared-alabamas-leaders-sweet-home'>Sweet home<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe circular web of scandals that has ensnared Alabama&rsquo;s leaders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/h2TJSZDtMm2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor, the speaker of the house, and the chief justice, are all facing criminal charges, calls for impeachment, and \/ or disciplinary hearings. Even more sweet is how those processes each in turn impact the other players. Sweet home The circular web of scandals that has ensnared Alabama&rsquo;s leaders View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":423,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/16\/dutch_treat.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":0},"title":"Dutch treat","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Apr-03 9:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Betcha Sirhan Sirhan is wishing right now that he'd been in the Netherlands rather than the US. Eighteen years (twelve before eligible for parole) sounds like a pretty sweet sentence...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43349,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/sugar-is-sweet-and-so-is-food.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":1},"title":"Sugar Is Sweet and So Is Food","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jul-14 1:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I generally like the proposed FDA nutrition label -- clarifying serving size and calories per is helpful.\"Added sugar\" is an interesting one. On the one hand, anything that makes big industry groups howl with pain over added transparency is probably worth it just for that reason alone. \u00a0It is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12523,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/potpourri_on_family_art_n.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":2},"title":"Potpourri on Family Art Night","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Apr-08 8:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Enchanted Tiki Room Swag! On the occasion of its 45th anniversary. Sweet ... Six travel issues likely to be ignored - CNN.com - Well, travel issues aren't sexy enough...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3445,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/20\/sweet_suite.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":3},"title":"Sweet suite","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Nov-02 7:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Why is it that conservative anti-communists will crow about this smuggled film, showing Castro leading a life of luxury while his people live in poverty, but won't say anything about...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4423,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/fat_chance.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":4},"title":"Fat chance","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Sep-03 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"A judge has thrown out another law suit against McDonalds, which had claimed that McDs used \"misleading advertising to lure children into eating unhealthy foods that make them fat.\" Huzzah....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/12\/actually_it_sou.html","url_meta":{"origin":130644,"position":5},"title":"Actually, it sounds like a fine idea","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Mar-04 7:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"The New South Wales state parliament has two restaurants, a bar, and a liquor store. Needless to say, the legislators makes use of them. Instead of engaging in sober debate,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130689,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644\/revisions\/130689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}