{"id":185797,"date":"2014-08-12T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/12\/i-know-that-some-people-are-offended-but-i-approve\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T03:04:00","slug":"i-know-that-some-people-are-offended-but-i-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/12\/i-know-that-some-people-are-offended-but-i-approve\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know that Some People are Offended, but I Approve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a a primary in Arizona, one candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trayvon-martin-arizona-mailer-attack\">has invoked Trayvon Martin in describing another candidate&#8217;s support for stand your ground<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An Arizona candidate for Congress has sent out a mailer displaying the image of Trayvon Martin to attack her opponent&#8217;s record as a state lawmaker.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mary Rose Wilcox used the mailer to slam her opponent, Ruben Gallego, in the Democratic primary for Arizona&#8217;s 7th Congressional District in Phoenix, according to The Arizona Republic, which posted a copy of it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;America doesn&#8217;t need more Trayvon Martin tragedies,&#8221; the mailer reads, underneath a portrait of Martin in a hoodie. On the next page it lists Gallego&#8217;s support for &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; legislation and what it describes as his B+ record from the National Rifle Association.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More of this, please.<\/p>\n<p>If we ever want to push against against the NRA and other ammosexuals, we must extract a political price on people who find capitulating to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> amendment extremist, and the best place to do this is in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>It is is a good thing for supporting the NRA is turned into a liability at the primary level.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first step to standing up to the ammosexuals. <\/p>\n<p>To quote former Reagan staffer James Baker,&nbsp; &#8220;F%$# &#8217;em, the won&#8217;t vote for us anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a a primary in Arizona, one candidate has invoked Trayvon Martin in describing another candidate&#8217;s support for stand your ground: An Arizona candidate for Congress has sent out a mailer displaying the image of Trayvon Martin to attack her opponent&#8217;s record as a state lawmaker. Mary Rose Wilcox used the mailer to slam her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1055,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-gun-laws","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}