{"id":187617,"date":"2011-04-28T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/28\/why-not-gus-frerotte\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T22:52:00","slug":"why-not-gus-frerotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/28\/why-not-gus-frerotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Gus Frerotte?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most wanktastic representative in the Democratic caucus, Heath Shuler, had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/davidcatanese\/0411\/Heath_Shuler_gets_a_primary_.html\">got himself a primary challenger<\/a>, Cecil Bothwell:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>North Carolina Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler is getting a primary challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Cecil Bothwell, who originally said he would run as an independent, has changed his mind on the advice of friends and supporters, according to The Asheville Citizen-Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I originally believed that the best way to address issues too long ignored and to challenge the corporate power over the national parties was to run as an independent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve heard from hundreds of people, from WNC to Washington, DC, who believe the most likely path to success is up the middle instead of trying for an end-run.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s not on Act Blue yet, but when he is, I will add him to my Act Blue page.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s actually an interesting guy, the only openly Atheist politician I know of, according to his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cecil_Bothwell\">Wiki Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most wanktastic representative in the Democratic caucus, Heath Shuler, had got himself a primary challenger, Cecil Bothwell: North Carolina Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler is getting a primary challenge. Councilman Cecil Bothwell, who originally said he would run as an independent, has changed his mind on the advice of friends and supporters, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187617"}],"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=187617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}