{"id":211,"date":"2006-11-20T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2006-11-20T18:08:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:08:02","slug":"can-he-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Can he do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Steve Cohen was elected to serve as the new Congressman in the 9th District, replacing Harold Ford, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0 However, he said he intends to remain in his State Senate seat until after the election of a new Lt. Governor.<\/p>\n<p>But the new congress is typically sworn in on January 2nd or so&#8230; before the State Legislature would convene to elect leadership.\u00c2\u00a0 Can he legally hold both a State and a Federal office at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t seem so, but I don&#8217;t know.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Steve Cohen was elected to serve as the new Congressman in the 9th District, replacing Harold Ford, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0 However, he said he intends to remain in his State Senate seat until after the election of a new Lt. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}