{"id":467,"date":"2009-05-21T00:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:39","slug":"a-kennedy-in-obamas-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"A Kennedy in Obama&#8217;s Senate Seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what CNN&#8217;s Political Ticker <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/20\/update-a-kennedy-expected-to-seek-obamas-senate-seat\/\">is saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris Kennedy, the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, is taking steps to run for Senate and could announce his candidacy as early as next week, a source close to the Kennedy family told CNN Wednesday&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Chris Kennedy, an Illinois businessman, would not go as far as to say he is in the race, but acknowledged that he is &#8220;seriously considering&#8221; a Senate bid&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>But a second source, an Illinois Democrat also speaking on the condition of anonymity, told CNN that Kennedy&#8217;s political allies are telling state Democrats that he will indeed seek the Democratic nomination for the seat once held by President Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that I want to see Burris keep it, but I&#8217;m completely fed up with the political dynasty thing, whichever side of the aisle is festering our ill-disguised trend toward annointing royalty, it always strikes me as disturbing, as it seems unlikely it will get us any closer to real representation of real people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what CNN&#8217;s Political Ticker is saying: Chris Kennedy, the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, is taking steps to run for Senate and could announce his candidacy as early as next week, a source close to the Kennedy family told CNN Wednesday&#8230; A spokeswoman for Chris Kennedy, an Illinois businessman, would not go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[105,153,2869,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}