{"id":10863,"date":"2010-03-04T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/democrat-switches-to-republican-in-new-york-boosts-county-assembly-majority-for-gop\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:30:00","slug":"democrat-switches-to-republican-in-new-york-boosts-county-assembly-majority-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-switches-to-republican-in-new-york-boosts-county-assembly-majority-for-gop.php","title":{"rendered":"Democrat switches to Republican in New York: Boosts County Assembly majority for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S48OT94XtuI\/AAAAAAAAKK0\/gAKxPOdfLq0\/s1600-h\/CarmenGumina.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/39e0f_CarmenGumina.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Carmen Gumina, a local Legislator in Monroe County (western New York), recently switched his party registration to Republican.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whec.com\/news\/stories\/s1404436.shtml\">WHEC Channel 10<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>The Republicans increased their majority in the Monroe County Legislature Saturday, despite no elections being held.<\/p><p>At a press conference Saturday morning alongside County Executive Maggie Brooks and Chairman Bill Reilich, Carmen Gumina, a county legislator in Webster, announced he's switching parties and his allegiance, from Democrat to Republican. <\/p><p>This now gives Republicans a 16-13 majority over Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Gumina cited his fiscal conservatism inconsistent with current Democrat Party beliefs, and his interest in tax relief for his constituents.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/39e0f_7828681836623105417-2625212454778342247?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Gumina, a local Legislator in Monroe County (western New York), recently switched his party registration to Republican. From the WHEC Channel 10:The Republicans increased their majority in the Monroe County Legislature Saturday, despite no elections being held.At a press &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/democrat-switches-to-republican-in-new-york-boosts-county-assembly-majority-for-gop.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}