{"id":26926,"date":"2017-11-21T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26926"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:13:17","slug":"how-to-pick-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26926","title":{"rendered":"How To Pick Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sure knows his stuff...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/11\/21\/trump-census-pick-causes-alarm-252571\">The Trump administration<\/a> is leaning toward naming Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Census Bureau, according to two people who have been briefed on the bureau\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Brunell, a political science professor, has testified more than half a dozen times on behalf of Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, and is the author of a 2008 book titled \u201cRedistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump sure knows his stuff... The Trump administration is leaning toward naming Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Census Bureau, according to two people who have been briefed on the bureau\u2019s plans. Brunell, a political science professor, has testified more than half a dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26927,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926\/revisions\/26927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}