{"id":2891,"date":"2011-07-14T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2013-08-29T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:28:48","slug":"legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/07\/14\/legislator\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to be a legislator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to get elected with minimal effort? Your best bet may be to run for office in a district with very few actual residents, says a new video by Bruce Reilly, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caught.net\/dare.htm\">Direct Action for Rights and Equality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How? Move to a district with a large prison, make sure the local government counts incarcerated people as residents, campaign to win the support of the handful of actual residents, and voila! You&#8217;re in, thanks to prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tBdXTMKBC4s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to get elected with minimal effort? New video shows that your best bet is to run for office in a prison-gerrymandered district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}