{"id":87806,"date":"2024-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87806"},"modified":"2024-06-26T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:45:53","slug":"squad-scratch-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87806","title":{"rendered":"Squad:  Scratch One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jamaal Bowman, perhaps the dumbest member of a dumb &#8220;Squad&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/jamaal-bowman-george-latimer-ny-house-primary-results-rcna158487\">is on his way to his non-profit reward<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., suffered a primary defeat Tuesday to a moderate challenger who was backed by pro-Israel groups, NBC News projected, following a bitter and expensive race that exposed the party\u2019s divisions over the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race between Bowman and Westchester County Executive George Latimer in New York\u2019s 16th District drew more ad spending \u2014 $25 million, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact \u2014 than any other House primary in history. Nearly $15 million of that spending came from the United Democracy Project, a super PAC linked to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel lobby, which backed Latimer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 84% of the vote in as of Wednesday morning, Latimer led Bowman by a wide margin, 58.4% to 41.6%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get too excited &#8211; Bowman &#8220;represents&#8221; (for now) a very Jewish district.   His approach to the Gaza war may have been the most tone deaf in history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s good to see him gone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaal Bowman, perhaps the dumbest member of a dumb &#8220;Squad&#8221;, is on his way to his non-profit reward: Progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., suffered a primary defeat Tuesday to a moderate challenger who was backed by pro-Israel groups, NBC News projected, following a bitter and expensive race that exposed the party\u2019s divisions over the war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-gaza-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87807,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87806\/revisions\/87807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}