{"id":15802,"date":"2014-01-16T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:24:34","slug":"mass-state-sen-brewer-to-retire-at-end-of-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/16\/mass-state-sen-brewer-to-retire-at-end-of-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. state Sen. Brewer to retire at end of term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Boston Globe<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Boston Globe Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/2014\/01\/16\/mass-state-sen-brewer-retire-end-term\/2G3JpJuzrbBFpUw1GrB3yL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mass. state Sen. Brewer to retire at end of term<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the state\u2019s most influential legislators has decided not to seek re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Stephen Brewer, a Democrat from Barre (BA&#8217;-ree), says he will leave office when his current term ends next January.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer chairs the powerful Senate Ways and Means Committee, which is responsible for developing the Senate version of the annual state budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The area that Brewer represented, which includes Sturbridge, is hardly a bastion of strong, progressive, Democratic politics.\u00a0 In fact, I have heard it said that about 22 of the towns in his district have a habit of supporting Republicans for state and national offices.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time, or is it way past time, to start looking for a strong Democrat from this area to run in the election to replace the outgoing Sen. Stephen Brewer.<\/p>\n<p>I have already received a call from an activist in Wales who is pushing hard on this search.\u00a0 Hopefully the Democrats in Sturbridge and other surrounding towns will join together to find and promote such a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>I am no politician, but I have a few contacts that I can help put together with each other to make this happen.\u00a0 <a title=\"Email to me\" href=\"mailto:\/\/BrewerReplacement@ssgreenberg.name?subject=Brewer%20Replacement\"><strong>Let me know<\/strong><\/a> if you are interested in participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has the story Mass. state Sen. Brewer to retire at end of term. One of the state\u2019s most influential legislators has decided not to seek re-election. Sen. Stephen Brewer, a Democrat from Barre (BA&#8217;-ree), says he will leave office when his current term ends next January. Brewer chairs the powerful Senate Ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15807,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions\/15807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}