{"id":1529,"date":"2009-01-25T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2009-01-25T23:49:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T03:49:04","slug":"state-house-speaker-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"State House Speaker to step down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a news report filed at 6 pm today, the House Speaker&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; said in an interview this afternoon that he will resign from the Legislature on Tuesday, saying he is proud of his record and is leaving with his &#8221;head high&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; has endured public scrutiny because of influence-peddling allegations involving close his friends [sic], was sending a letter to his House colleagues tonight informing them of his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the swirl of ethics controversies, he insisted &#8230; he is leaving with a clear conscience as he steps down &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; denied that the ethics issues that have tarnished his public image are playing a role in his departure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/01\/dimasi_to_step.html\">about Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a news report filed at 6 pm today, the House Speaker&#8230; &#8230; said in an interview this afternoon that he will resign from the Legislature on Tuesday, saying he is proud of his record and is leaving with his &#8221;head high&#8221;&#8230; &#8230; has endured public scrutiny because of influence-peddling allegations involving close his friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-oF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}