{"id":1759,"date":"2015-01-02T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T13:37:09","slug":"legislative-oops-of-the-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Oops of the Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<p><li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone here that&#8217;s been killed with a handgun.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Rep. Avery Alexander, D-New Orleans<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>&#8220;I think we have passed something that we didn&#8217;t want to do.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Rep. Chuck McMains, R-Baton Rouge<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that we are going to let a majority of the people decide what is best for this state.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Rep. John Travis, D-Jackson<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>&#8220;This amendment does more damage than it does harm.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Rep. Cynthia Willard-Lewis, D-New Orleans<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>&#8220;Y&#8217;all are hurting my tender ears. I would appreciate it if y&#8217;all would scream one at a time.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; House Speaker John Alario, D-Westwego<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>&#8220;I was 15 years old before I ate my first chicken without tire tracks.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Rep. Jay McCallum, D-Farmerville<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<p><li>Describing how it is to run through a gauntlet of lobbyists to get to the Senate chamber:<br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re lined up like cooters on a log on a sunshiny day.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Sen. B.B. &#8220;Sixty&#8221; Rayburn, D-Bogalusa<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anyone here that&#8217;s been killed with a handgun.&#8221; &#8212; Rep. Avery Alexander, D-New Orleans &#8220;I think we have passed something that we didn&#8217;t want to do.&#8221; &#8211;Rep. Chuck McMains, R-Baton Rouge &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that we are going to let a majority of the people decide what is best for this state.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":1,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[252,419],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-blooper","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}