{"id":1587,"date":"2010-02-09T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/09\/hiram-monserrate-kicked-out-of-ny-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:52:00","slug":"hiram-monserrate-kicked-out-of-ny-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/09\/hiram-monserrate-kicked-out-of-ny-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiram Monserrate kicked out of NY Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from Governor Paterson and good government groups over ethics reform, the New York state Senate took what may be its first decisive action in a year today.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers expelled Hiram Monserrate, the Queens Democrat whose assault on his girlfriend became tabloid fodder.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/09\/hiram-monserrate-expelled_n_456127.html\">the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate voted 53-8 on Tuesday night to oust Sen. Hiram Monserrate. The Queens Democrat was convicted of dragging his girlfriend through his apartment lobby but acquitted of a felony. A felony conviction would have automatically cost him his job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from Governor Paterson and good government groups over ethics reform, the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}