{"id":7191,"date":"2016-12-22T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:41:12","slug":"its-never-too-early-to-run-for-presidentgovernor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7191","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s never too early to run for&#8230;&#8230; President (2020) \/ Governor (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not, to my knowledge, signed up for any email lists related to Maria Cantwell or Su Happ.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the following messages recently arrived in my inbox.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/12\/cantwell_Christmas_12222016.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Cantwell#Private_sector_career_.281995.E2.80.931999.29\">Maria Cantwell<\/a>, a US Senator from the State of Washington and member of the Democrat Party, became wealthy at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RealNetworks\">RealNetworks<\/a>, in between elected offices.  <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the news missed me, but my home &#8211; Madison &#8211; is some distance from Cantwell&#8217;s Washington.   <\/p>\n<p>One could imagine &#8220;big tech&#8221; supporting Cantwell&#8217;s 2020 Presidential candidacy.  <\/p>\n<p>Maria Cantwell: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorCantwell\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantwell.com\">campaign www<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantwell.senate.gov\/\">Senate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Maria+Cantwell%22&#038;t=hs&#038;ia=web\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/usearch\/?q=%22Maria+Cantwell%22&#038;cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&#038;cof=FORID%3A11\">Open Secrets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=wikileaks+%22Maria+Cantwell%22\">Wikileaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2016\/12\/sue_happ_Christmas2016.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Su Happ is the Jefferson County (Wisconsin) District Attorney.   She ran unsuccessfully for Wisconsin Attorney General in 2014.   <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she is mulling a race for Governor in 2018?<\/p>\n<p>Su Happ: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/happ4wi\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanhapp.com\/\">campaign www<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/susanhappforwisconsin\/\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/susanhapp\">LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Susan+Happ%22&#038;t=hs&#038;ia=web\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/usearch\/index.php?q=%22Susan+Happ%22&#038;cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&#038;cof=FORID%3A11&#038;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opensecrets.org%2F\">Open Secrets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=wikileaks+%22Susan+Happ%22\">Wikileaks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not, to my knowledge, signed up for any email lists related to Maria Cantwell or Su Happ. Nonetheless, the following messages recently arrived in my inbox. Maria Cantwell, a US Senator from the State of Washington and member of the Democrat Party, became wealthy at RealNetworks, in between elected offices. Perhaps the news missed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}