{"id":8736,"date":"2025-05-02T07:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:37","slug":"crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett starts stumping for Oversight post, telling colleagues she&#8217;s \u2018made for the moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party&#8217;s top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation. Crockett&#8217;s entreaties &mdash; playing out in phone calls, text messages and floor conversations &mdash; mark the beginning of a contested race to succeed Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/01\/congress\/crockett-maneuvers-for-oversight-00321736\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party&#8217;s top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation. Crockett&#8217;s entreaties &mdash; playing out in phone calls, text messages and floor conversations &mdash; mark the beginning of a contested race to succeed Rep&#8230;Read More<\/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-8736","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\/8736","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=8736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}