{"id":920,"date":"2016-11-22T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/?p=920"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:28:26","slug":"governor-baker-is-a-political-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2016\/11\/22\/governor-baker-is-a-political-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Baker is a political coward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the past presidential election Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker has repeatedly and publicly proven himself a political coward. He perpetuated the false equivalence between Trump&#8217;s vague, hateful, disgusting, and violent demagoguery against Americans and Clinton&#8217;s sensible, articulate vision of governance. <\/p>\n<p>Most damning, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/11\/08\/gov-baker-said-didn-vote-presidential-election\/hgOPplBmZezwv3yI9aFTJI\/story.html\">Baker did not vote<\/a>. Baker is a coward.<\/p>\n<p>Governor, you are an elected, public official. Voting is an honor and an obligation, Baker. You <em>yourself<\/em> hold office because <em>other people voted for you<\/em>. You must lead by example. Be a leader. Have a reasoned opinion and defend it. If you discover you are wrong, have the courage to admit your mistake and explain your new stance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want my leaders to be perfect. But I do want them to lead.<\/p>\n<p>Speak up. Vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the past presidential election Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker has repeatedly and publicly proven himself a political coward. He perpetuated the false equivalence between Trump&#8217;s vague, hateful, disgusting, and violent demagoguery against Americans and Clinton&#8217;s sensible, articulate vision of governance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2016\/11\/22\/governor-baker-is-a-political-coward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[27774,27776,113],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-charlie-baker","tag-courage","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}