{"id":14513,"date":"2012-08-14T19:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-15T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:27:43","slug":"rep-dennis-cardoza-retires-effective-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/14\/rep-dennis-cardoza-retires-effective-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Dennis Cardoza resigns effective immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thirdwaythinktank\/5454497752\/\" title=\"Underwater: Housing &amp; the Recovery - Rep. Dennis Cardoza by Third Way, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5013\/5454497752_47d3569cf3_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"215\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Underwater: Housing &amp; the Recovery - Rep. Dennis Cardoza\"><\/a><i>Wasn&#8217;t running for re-election<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cardoza was out of a seat after redistricting, and rather than running against Jim Costa, a fellow moderate Democrat, chose not to run for re-election. &nbsp;Today he announced that he&#8217;ll be jumping ship right away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing sensitive family needs, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, has tendered his immediate resignation from the House of Representatives. The surprisingly timed departure takes effect at midnight Wednesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/08\/rep-dennis-cardoza-announces-resignation.html\">(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that the Republicans have a large majority as it is, I&#8217;m not sure this makes that big of a difference going forward in the House. However, the early retirement six months before his scheduled date was a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: And right away he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/08\/15\/4726378\/the-buzz-rep-dennis-cardoza-speeds.html\">gets a job as a lobbyist<\/a>. Awesome system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thirdwaythinktank\/5454497752\/\" title=\"Underwater: Housing &amp; the Recovery - Rep. Dennis Cardoza by Third Way, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5013\/5454497752_47d3569cf3_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"215\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Underwater: Housing &amp; the Recovery - Rep. Dennis Cardoza\"><\/a><i>Wasn&#8217;t running for re-election<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cardoza was out of a seat after redistricting, and rather than running against Jim Costa, a fellow moderate Democrat, chose not to run for re-election. &nbsp;Today he announced that he&#8217;ll be jumping ship right away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing sensitive family needs, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, has tendered his immediate resignation from the House of Representatives. The surprisingly timed departure takes effect at midnight Wednesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2012\/08\/rep-dennis-cardoza-announces-resignation.html\">(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that the Republicans have a large majority as it is, I&#8217;m not sure this makes that big of a difference going forward in the House. However, the early retirement six months before his scheduled date was a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: And right away he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/08\/15\/4726378\/the-buzz-rep-dennis-cardoza-speeds.html\">gets a job as a lobbyist<\/a>. Awesome system.<\/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":[1217],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1217"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3M5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","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=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}