{"id":36978,"date":"2021-06-27T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36978"},"modified":"2021-06-27T19:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:35:02","slug":"the-weird-story-behind-sheldon-whitehouses-beach-club-furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36978","title":{"rendered":"The weird story behind Sheldon Whitehouse&#8217;s beach club furor"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Sen.\u00a0Sheldon Whitehouse\u2019s (D-R.I.) association with a famously exclusive beach club in Newport was widely known in Rhode Island and not much of a controversy until a week ago, when it suddenly exploded into the national news scene, fueled by the power of Twitter and a growing national debate over racial and economic inequality in America.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Whitehouse\u2019s club \u201cmembership\u201d was made extra juicy by unsubstantiated claims that Bailey\u2019s Beach Club \u2014 a small, elite club where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier frolicked in the waves when their families first met to discuss wedding plans \u2014 is an all-white organization and that Whitehouse promised to resign from it when he first ran for Senate in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>One veteran of Rhode Island\u2019s political journalism scene expressed some surprise that an old story about Whitehouse\u2019s affiliation with Bailey\u2019s Beach Club blew up into a national controversy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Sheldon Whitehouse\u2019s (D-R.I.) association with a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36979,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions\/36979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}