{"id":1838,"date":"2008-08-14T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-08-14T02:35:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:35:20","slug":"the_senator_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"The Senator May Have Some Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20080813\/NEWS\/808130362\" target=\"browser\">a story in the local Santa Rosa paper<\/a>, it is suggested that the outburst by Sen Pat Wiggins I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/californias_thoughtful_legislators.php\" target=\"browser\">linked to<\/a> below may be part of an emerging pattern of behavior, rather than simple rudeness:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The outburst did not come as a shock to a half-dozen past and current elected leaders, public officials and supporters who said they have become alarmed about what they see as the senator&#8217;s increasingly erratic behavior over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe incidents include inappropriate comments, displays of temper and the need to speak from prepared scripts.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s bad news. Clearly, something is wrong,&#8221; said a longtime supporter, who, along with others interviewed for this story, requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope she&#8217;s just having a bad spell&#8230;and it does appear that my suggestion that this was the product of an elected official&#8217;s arrogance may have been misplaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Pat Wiggins may not be rude as I suggested; see a local paper for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}