{"id":1538,"date":"2014-08-02T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:32:53","slug":"congressional-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oversight\/oversight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oversight\/oversight550w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been following the recent decriminalization of marijuana in DC &#8212; and the current Initiative 71 legalization campaign &#8212; have had a little taste of how badly <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pmzpgr5\" target=\"_blank\">Congress jerks us around<\/a> in terms of self-government and self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had meddling Congressmen trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kh67gpf\" target=\"_blank\">scuttle our gun control laws, prevent us from funding abortions<\/a> and, most recently, the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/m2rvxrt\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Rep. Andy Harris<\/a> trying to stop us from implementing marijuana decriminalization &#8212; and probably one of the biggest fears right now is that Congress will try to interfere in the upcoming election here, where we&#8217;ll be electing a new Mayor, and voting on whether or not to legalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oversight\/oversight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.3mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve been following the recent decriminalization of marijuana in DC &#8212; and the current Initiative 71 legalization campaign &#8212; have had a little taste of how badly Congress jerks us around in terms of self-government and self-determination. We&#8217;ve had meddling Congressmen trying to scuttle our gun control laws, prevent us from funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,7,5],"tags":[89,569,568],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-elections","category-liberty","tag-dc","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}