{"id":1620,"date":"2012-11-08T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:05:24","slug":"king-likely-to-announce-hes-caucusing-with-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/08\/king-likely-to-announce-hes-caucusing-with-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"King Likely to Announce He&#8217;s Caucusing With Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Maine Senate electee, <b>Angus King<\/b>, an independent former governor, looks likely to announce within weeks that he will caucus will Senate Democrats.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At a news conference Wednesday in Maine, King said he may make a decision on caucusing by the end of next week, when he will be in Washington for freshman orientation, or after Thanksgiving, according to King spokeswoman <b>Crystal Canney<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader <b>Harry Reid<\/b>, D-Nev., in his own news conference Wednesday, said he had &#8220;several conversations in the last 24 hours&#8221; with King. Reid said he expected King would reach a decision soon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Canney, who said she was aware only of one congratulatory call Reid made to King Tuesday night, said Reid suggested that King consult with fellow New England independent Sens. <b>Bernie Sanders<\/b>, I-Vt., and and <b>Joseph Lieberman<\/b>, I.D.-Conn. , about how they have been treated in the Democratic Caucus.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/influencealley.nationaljournal.com\/2012\/11\/king-likely-to-announce-hes-ca.php\">http:\/\/influencealley.nationaljournal.com\/2012\/11\/king-likely-to-announce-hes-ca.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Senate electee, Angus King, an independent former governor, looks likely to announce within weeks that he will caucus will Senate Democrats. At a news conference Wednesday in Maine, King said he may make a decision on caucusing by the end of next week, when he will be in Washington for freshman orientation, or after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/11\/08\/king-likely-to-announce-hes-caucusing-with-dems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;King Likely to Announce He&#8217;s Caucusing With Dems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[729,114,6],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-dan-friedman","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-q8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}