{"id":869,"date":"2004-11-01T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2007-09-13T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:49:50","slug":"florida-rethuglican-electioneering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"FLORIDA: Rethuglican Electioneering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_10_31.php#003886\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on a group calling themselves the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaleadershipcouncil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Leadership Council<\/a>&#8221; circulating a flyer now down there. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/docs\/florida.gasmask.flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">actual flyer<\/a>. Here&#8217;s Josh&#8217;s summary:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The headline reads: &#8220;First Day of School: Eighth Grade South Florida Middle School, 2007&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under that is a class of school children wearing gas masks and beneath that is the following faux-AP story &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">(AP) Florida Red Zone &#8212; August 14th, 2007 &#8212; President Kerry warned parents and children in South Florida that mandatory radiation and chemical gear would be required to be worn &#8220;for the forseeable future&#8221; since the Suitcase Dirty Bomb terrorist attack on South Florida in the spring. The first day of school was chaotic, as teachers and school officials attempted to bring some &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Perhaps even more troubling, however, is that when clicking on the link to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridaleadershipcouncil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Leadership Council<\/a>&#8221; there are <b>continuing gunshots heard<\/b> when looking at the front page. Three rifle shots, every 10 seconds or so.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be tied to an ad <i>against<\/i> U.S. Senate candidate Betty Castor (who is in a tight race down there), which is right next to pictures of Democrat\/Liberal figureheads with the text &#8220;It&#8217;s time to fight back &#8211; before it&#8217;s too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/tomtoles\/2004\/05\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FLC_website_110104.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall reports on a group calling themselves the &#8220;Florida Leadership Council&#8221; circulating a flyer now down there. Here&#8217;s the actual flyer. Here&#8217;s Josh&#8217;s summary: The headline reads: &#8220;First Day of School: Eighth Grade South Florida Middle School, 2007&#8221; Under that is a class of school children wearing gas masks and beneath that is the [&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":[169,8,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2004","category-florida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}