{"id":73291,"date":"2019-10-29T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73291"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T11:54:40","slug":"us-congresswoman-resigns-over-accusation-of-affair-with-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-congresswoman-resigns-over-accusation-of-affair-with-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"US congresswoman resigns over accusation of affair with staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill, who has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a staffer in violation of House of Representatives rules, announced her resignation on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community and our country,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is what needs to happen so that the good people who supported me will no longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives who seem to happily provide a platform to a monster who is driving a smear campaign,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House Committee on Ethics announced Wednesday that it was investigating allegations that the California Democrat who is going through a divorce \u201cmay have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill, who has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a staffer in violation of House of Representatives rules, announced her resignation on Sunday. \u201cThis is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community and our country,\u201d [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73293,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions\/73293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}