{"id":2066,"date":"2009-07-07T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2009-07-07T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:38:16","slug":"mass-govs-race-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/07\/mass-govs-race-heating-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. gov&#8217;s race heating up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be a signal he could challenge Governor Duval Patrick next year as an independent, Massachusetts state Treasurer Tim Cahill <a title=\"plans to quit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/07\/07\/cahill_plans_to_leave_democratic_party_bid_for_governor_still_uncertain?mode=PF\" target=\"_blank\">plans to quit <\/a>the Democratic party this week.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Fred Bayles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/fred_bayles.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Bayles<\/a>, a former USA Today and AP reporter who directs BU&#8217;s <a title=\"State House journalism program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/statehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">State House journalism program<\/a>, can offer insight into the emerging governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Fred Bayles, 617-353-7736, <a href=\"mailto:fbayles@bu.edu\">fbayles@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be a signal he could challenge Governor Duval Patrick next year as an independent, Massachusetts state Treasurer Tim Cahill plans to quit the Democratic party this week.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Fred Bayles, a former USA Today and AP reporter who directs BU&#8217;s State House journalism program, can offer insight into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1419,1417,727,1418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}