{"id":12406,"date":"2010-08-28T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-27T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:53:00","slug":"leadership-change-for-senate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/28\/leadership-change-for-senate-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Change for Senate Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/dutton-wants-hollingsworth-to.html\">Over at Capitol Alert<\/a>, there is some speculation about when the Senate Republicans will transition from the leadership of Sen. Hollingsworth to Sen. Dutton. &nbsp;But in typical Republican style, they are using this to leverage additional concessions from the Democrats. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the Democrats drop their demands for unsustainable levels of spending and higher taxes, then it&#8217;ll mean we&#8217;re probably getting pretty close and there&#8217;s no reason why we couldn&#8217;t postpone the transition and finish it off,&#8221; Hollingsworth said. &#8220;But if they are not going to drop those demands for higher spending and higher taxes, it means we&#8217;re essentially at square one and there wouldn&#8217;t be any harm in Sen. Dutton taking over because there wouldn&#8217;t be very involved negotiations happening yet.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/dutton-wants-hollingsworth-to.html#ixzz0xqUbHxDy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, Hollingsworth, if you all drop your demands of drowning the state government, then perhaps we&#8217;ll wrap this up quickly too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/dutton-wants-hollingsworth-to.html\">Over at Capitol Alert<\/a>, there is some speculation about when the Senate Republicans will transition from the leadership of Sen. Hollingsworth to Sen. Dutton. &nbsp;But in typical Republican style, they are using this to leverage additional concessions from the Democrats. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the Democrats drop their demands for unsustainable levels of spending and higher taxes, then it&#8217;ll mean we&#8217;re probably getting pretty close and there&#8217;s no reason why we couldn&#8217;t postpone the transition and finish it off,&#8221; Hollingsworth said. &#8220;But if they are not going to drop those demands for higher spending and higher taxes, it means we&#8217;re essentially at square one and there wouldn&#8217;t be any harm in Sen. Dutton taking over because there wouldn&#8217;t be very involved negotiations happening yet.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/dutton-wants-hollingsworth-to.html#ixzz0xqUbHxDy\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, Hollingsworth, if you all drop your demands of drowning the state government, then perhaps we&#8217;ll wrap this up quickly too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[4150,1124,1595,23],"class_list":["post-12406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-4150","tag-1124","tag-1595","tag-23"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}