{"id":34842,"date":"2017-02-24T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/divided-democrats-look-for-a-leader-this-weekend-likely-keith-ellison"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:48:11","slug":"divided-democrats-look-for-a-leader-this-weekend-likely-keith-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/divided-democrats-look-for-a-leader-this-weekend-likely-keith-ellison","title":{"rendered":"Divided Democrats look for a leader this weekend, likely Keith Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/divided-democrats-look-for-a-leader-this-weekend-likely-keith-ellison.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some #transhumanism futurist stuff midway down the article:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This weekend, the party hosts its big winter meeting in Atlanta with a heavy to-do list and much interest. The big doings drew so many attendees that organizers moved the event from a local hotel to a major trade center.<\/p>\n<p>Dominating the agenda is the election of a Democratic National Committee chairman Saturday; seven hopefuls are in the running. Rep. <strong>Keith Ellison<\/strong> of Minnesota is considered the front-runner since he has the endorsements of Sens. <strong>Charles E. Schumer<\/strong>, <strong>Nancy Pelosi <\/strong>and <strong>Elizabeth Warren<\/strong>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>At a candidates debate this week hosted by CNN, Mr. Ellison had this to say: \u201cI think that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question of impeachment.\u201d In follow-up coverage, several news organizations declared that the lawmaker had uttered \u201cthe I word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Republicans are taking a keen interest in the outcome of the chairmanship election. Will it send the Democratic Party into progressive territory \u2014 or to some comfy spot in the center? Will the new chair unite the energetic far left with entrenched establishment Democrats?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/23\/divided-democrats-look-for-leader\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/feb\/23\/divided-demo...or-leader\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some #transhumanism futurist stuff midway down the article: This weekend, the party hosts its big winter meeting in Atlanta with a heavy to-do list and much interest. The big doings drew so many attendees that organizers moved the event from a local hotel to a major trade center. Dominating the agenda is the election of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48726,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34842\/revisions\/48726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}