{"id":14608,"date":"2025-10-18T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vermont-state-senator-resigns-amid-young-republican-group-chat-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:20:22","slug":"vermont-state-senator-resigns-amid-young-republican-group-chat-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vermont-state-senator-resigns-amid-young-republican-group-chat-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont state senator resigns amid Young Republican group chat scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont state Sen. Samuel Douglass (R) resigned from his post on Friday after being named as a participant in a Young Republican group chat where racist and antisemitic jokes were made.&nbsp; In a Friday statement, Douglass wrote &ldquo;for all concerned, me, my wife, my family, I must resign (effective Monday at noon).&rdquo;  &ldquo;I know that&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5561818-douglass-resigns-young-republican-chat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont state Sen. Samuel Douglass (R) resigned from his post on Friday after being named as a participant in a Young Republican group chat where racist and antisemitic jokes were made.&nbsp; In a Friday statement, Douglass wrote &ldquo;for all concerned, me, my wife, my family, I must resign (effective Monday at noon).&rdquo; &ldquo;I know that&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}