{"id":11,"date":"2003-10-01T01:14:22","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T05:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/haslam_wins\/"},"modified":"2003-10-01T01:14:22","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T05:14:22","slug":"haslam_wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/haslam_wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Haslam Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bill Haslam was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/election\/article\/0,1406,KNS_630_2312365,00.html\">elected Knoxville&#8217;s new mayor<\/a> over Madeline Rogero by a relatively close 15,370 to 13,684 margin.  The victory came in no small part thanks to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of Sept. 15, Haslam had raised $578,571 &#8211; nearly four times the $155,700 Rogero raised. About half his contributions came from well-heeled business leaders and their families, while the other half came from more than 2,000 donors who gave smaller amounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For his part, Haslam gives credit to his grassroots campaign, which knocked down many Knoxvillian doors.  By my calculations, Haslam received 0.77 votes for each alleged door his campaign struck.  I have no door knocking data to assess whether that&#8217;s a good ratio or not.<br \/>\nHaslam says, &#8220;It&#8217;s Knoxville&#8217;s time.&#8221;  Let&#8217;s hope so.  There&#8217;s a lot of untapped potential here.<br \/>\nAs for me, I&#8217;ll be looking forward to those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhaslam.com\/PRDetail.asp?NewsID={035EA687-96AB-40EC-B549-FD266B0B1A6C}\">new bikeways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/haslam_wins\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Haslam Wins\"><p>Yesterday Bill Haslam was elected Knoxville&#8217;s new mayor over Madeline Rogero by a relatively close 15,370 to 13,684 margin. The victory came in no small part thanks to this: As of Sept. 15, Haslam had raised $578,571 &#8211; nearly four times the $155,700 Rogero raised. About half his contributions came from well-heeled business leaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}