{"id":8052,"date":"2010-09-07T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2010-09-08T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T18:12:52","slug":"gop-dirty-tricks-well-under-way-in-advance-of-november-mid-terms-two-latest-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8052","title":{"rendered":"GOP Dirty Tricks Well Under Way in Advance of November Mid-Terms: Two Latest Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to elections, it seems there are no rules, laws, morals, or ethical boundaries which Republicans aren&#8217;t willing to happily violate in order to be &#8220;victorious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our latest two examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at Daily Kos today, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/9\/7\/899749\/-KY-Sen:-Rand-Paul-staffer-caught-posing-as-progressive-at-Daily-Kos\">commenter has been outed<\/a> as a &#8220;concern troll&#8221; hoping to deflate progressive support for KY&#8217;s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway, while serving on the payroll of Republican candidate Rand Paul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Arizona, as the <i>NYTimes<\/i> reports today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/07candidates.html?_r=1&#038;ref=republican_party\">GOP has been proudly recruiting homeless people<\/a> to run on the Green Party ticket for various offices, in hopes of splitting the Democratic vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what <i>wouldn&#8217;t<\/i> these guys do to ensure a &#8220;victory&#8221;? Stay classy, GOP. The founders would be very proud!<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to elections, it seems there are no rules, laws, morals, or ethical boundaries which Republicans aren&#8217;t willing to happily violate in order to be &#8220;victorious.&#8221; Our latest two examples: Over at Daily Kos today, a commenter has been outed as a &#8220;concern troll&#8221; hoping to deflate progressive support for KY&#8217;s Democratic U.S. [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,70,405,358,169,420,247,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-arizona","category-bush-legacy","category-daily-kos","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2010","category-kentucky","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","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=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}