{"id":15629,"date":"2025-11-13T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fellow-democrat-takes-aim-at-chuy-garcias-undemocratic-retirement-gambit-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:20:31","slug":"fellow-democrat-takes-aim-at-chuy-garcias-undemocratic-retirement-gambit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fellow-democrat-takes-aim-at-chuy-garcias-undemocratic-retirement-gambit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Democrat takes aim at Chuy Garc\u00eda\u2019s &#8216;undemocratic&#8217; retirement gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow Democrat moved to sanction Illinois Rep. Chuy Garc&iacute;a Wednesday for a gambit in which he retired and functionally guaranteed that his chief of staff would be the only Democrat on the ballot to succeed him. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington went to the House floor as lawmakers prepared to debate legislation reopening the government to introduce a resolution accusing Garc&iacute;a of &ldquo;undermining the process of a free and fair election&rdquo; and calling on the House to disapprove of his behavior&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/12\/congress\/mgp-vs-chuy-garcia-00650119\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow Democrat moved to sanction Illinois Rep. Chuy Garc&iacute;a Wednesday for a gambit in which he retired and functionally guaranteed that his chief of staff would be the only Democrat on the ballot to succeed him. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington went to the House floor as lawmakers prepared to debate legislation reopening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629","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=15629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}