{"id":3775,"date":"2024-12-17T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-boycotts-meetings-and-panels-saying-she-doesnt-need-to-be-involved-in-circuses-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:20:37","slug":"gop-lawmaker-boycotts-meetings-and-panels-saying-she-doesnt-need-to-be-involved-in-circuses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-boycotts-meetings-and-panels-saying-she-doesnt-need-to-be-involved-in-circuses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmaker boycotts meetings and panels, saying she doesn&#8217;t \u2018need to be involved in circuses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Monday that she is opting out from serving on committees next year and will boycott the House GOP conference meetings, a rare move given she also stated her intention to remain a Republican. &ldquo;I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/16\/congress\/spartzs-boycott-panel-meetings-gop-00194642\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Monday that she is opting out from serving on committees next year and will boycott the House GOP conference meetings, a rare move given she also stated her intention to remain a Republican. &ldquo;I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus [&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-3775","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\/3775","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=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}