{"id":48612,"date":"2014-12-01T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/piggly-only-wiggly.html"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T00:42:13","slug":"piggly-only-wiggly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/piggly-only-wiggly.html","title":{"rendered":"Piggly-only-Wiggly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t know &#8212; when Chris Christie calls something &quot;partisan politics,&quot; he almost certainly knows whereof he speaks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not quite sure how it fits in with traditional Republican politics to reject a bill passed <i>twice<\/i> by elected legislators in favor of &quot;in-state experts&quot; in the government. Though I&#39;m sure it will make him look a lot more attractive to the caucusing citizens of Iowa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2014\/11\/christie_vetoes_pig_crate_ban_accusses_sponsors_of_partisan_politicking.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/efmhHR2GiS5yeaoIAKWKBh9XP9MGTYsCnLW_ENyLVjYPHe2klUuhxmofXlqtl_cyG8E7CLA4_GxAIGHF-n44XJkNygAf9jq1g6EbCXN15_0E1bJeclMoLC76PdUZfzWQJTzwUCODQ-7F5AJUuGo1pjMN4zc=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2014\/11\/christie_vetoes_pig_crate_ban_accusses_sponsors_of_partisan_politicking.html'>Christie vetoes pig crate ban, accuses sponsors of partisan politicking<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nGov. Chris Christie unconditionally vetoed legislation banning the use of pig gestation crates in New Jersey today\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XwFdcGsKZ1L'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t know &#8212; when Chris Christie calls something &quot;partisan politics,&quot; he almost certainly knows whereof he speaks. I&#39;m not quite sure how it fits in with traditional Republican politics to reject a bill passed twice by elected legislators in favor of &quot;in-state experts&quot; in the government. Though I&#39;m sure it will make him look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/piggly-only-wiggly.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Piggly-only-Wiggly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129910,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/politics-in-my-more-cynical-moods.html","url_meta":{"origin":48612,"position":0},"title":"Politics, in my more cynical moods","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Feb-16 10:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"It sure does seem this way sometimes. 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