{"id":187174,"date":"2013-05-26T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/26\/we-do-not-need-this-congressional-seat-this-much\/"},"modified":"2013-05-26T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:56:00","slug":"we-do-not-need-this-congressional-seat-this-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/26\/we-do-not-need-this-congressional-seat-this-much\/","title":{"rendered":"We Do Not Need This Congressional Seat This Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am talking about North Carolina&#8217;s 7<sup>th<\/sup> district, and its current incumbent, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/05\/democratic-north-carolina-congressman-disappointed-end-ban-on-gay-scouts.php?ref=fpb\">&#8220;Democrat&#8221; Mike McIntyre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC) told North Carolina television station WECT that he\u2019s unhappy the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed,\u201d McIntyre said. \u201cI know my church has a long history of producing Eagle Scouts including my son and I know that many organizations that sponsor scouting are quite concerned about that and did not feel like it was an appropriate step. I know I\u2019m concerned about it and did not think it was an appropriate step.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No surprise that it&#8217;s also a member of the Blue Dog caucus.<\/p>\n<p>We do not need Democrats who openly endorse bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, he gets a primary challenge, but I just checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/\">Act Blue<\/a>, and right now, he is the only candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am talking about North Carolina&#8217;s 7th district, and its current incumbent, &#8220;Democrat&#8221; Mike McIntyre: Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC) told North Carolina television station WECT that he\u2019s unhappy the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth.\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed,\u201d McIntyre said. \u201cI know my church has a long history of producing Eagle Scouts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,998,1030,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-congress","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187174"}],"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=187174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}