{"id":1977,"date":"2005-11-04T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2005-11-04T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:10:29","slug":"dear-wingnuts-and-christian-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Dear Wingnuts and Christian Conservatives&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2005\/11\/03\/abramoff\/index_np.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MichaelScanlon.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2005\/11\/03\/abramoff\/index_np.html\">testimony<\/a> by Republican fundraiser Michael Scanlon at Wednesday&#8217;s Republican-run Senate hearings:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,&#8221; Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. &#8220;Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote <i>against<\/i> something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.&#8221;   The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious &#8220;wackos&#8221; could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.<\/div>\n<p>Do you people get it yet? <i>You&#8217;re<\/i> the &#8220;wackos&#8221; according to <i>your own<\/i> people.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From testimony by Republican fundraiser Michael Scanlon at Wednesday&#8217;s Republican-run Senate hearings: In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives. &#8220;The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,&#8221; Scanlon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}