{"id":217,"date":"2011-09-14T05:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-09-14T05:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:09:35","slug":"gop-wins-race-for-weiners-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/gop-wins-race-for-weiners-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Wins Race for Weiner&#8217;s Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\">\n<div id=\"centered\">\n<div id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<h1>Republican Wins House Race in New York, Seen as Obama Rebuke<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Turner Wins Weiners Seat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/396\/223\/091411_turnersupporters.jpg?resize=396%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c  Republicans have scored an upset victory in a New York City House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin (WEHP&#8217;-rihn) in a special election Tuesday to succeed Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/rep.-anthony-weiner.htm#r_src=ramp\">Anthony Weiner<\/a>, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June after a sex texting scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The heavily Democratic district spanning parts of Queens and Brooklyn had never sent a Republican to the House. But frustration with the continued weak national economy gave Republicans the edge.<\/p>\n<p>Turner has vowed to bring business practicality to Washington and push back on spending and taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/14\/republican-wins-house-race-in-new-york-seen-as-obama-rebuke\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/14\/republican-wins-house-race-in-new-york-seen-as-obama-rebuke\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Wins House Race in New York, Seen as Obama Rebuke NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Republicans have scored an upset victory in a New York City House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[140,136,139],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}