{"id":241,"date":"2026-07-30T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:34:14","slug":"ahead-of-giannoulias-expected-announcement-for-mayor-jack-lucey-reminds-us-of-alexis-baggage-train-of-ethical-scandals-and-explains-why-the-sos-is-unqualified-to-serve-as-chicagos-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"\u200bAhead of @Giannoulias&#8217; expected announcement for mayor, Jack Lucey reminds us of Alexi&#8217;s baggage train of ethical scandals and explains why the SoS is unqualified to serve as Chicago&#8217;s mayor. https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/alexi-giannoulias-wrong-for-chicago\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/Giannoulias\" title=\"Alexi Giannoulias\">@Giannoulias<\/a>&#8216; expected announcement for mayor, Jack Lucey reminds us of Alexi&#8217;s baggage train of ethical scandals and explains why the SoS is unqualified to serve as Chicago&#8217;s mayor.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/alexi-giannoulias-wrong-for-chicago\">chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/a\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/alexi-giannoulias-wrong-for-chicago\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2082851079335673856%2Fp7lShXnn%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Alexi Giannoulias: Wrong for Chicago | Chicago Contrarian<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giannoulias failed as Treasurer and Secretary of State. If elected mayor, he will be a disaster for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/alexi-giannoulias-wrong-for-chicago\">chicagocontrarian.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of @Giannoulias&#8216; expected announcement for mayor, Jack Lucey reminds us of Alexi&#8217;s baggage train of ethical scandals and explains why the SoS is unqualified to serve as Chicago&#8217;s mayor. chicagocontrarian.com\/blog\/a\u2026 Link Alexi Giannoulias: Wrong for Chicago | Chicago Contrarian Giannoulias failed as Treasurer and Secretary of State. If elected mayor, he will be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}