{"id":188984,"date":"2010-06-22T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/22\/i-hope-that-this-is-true\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:57:00","slug":"i-hope-that-this-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/22\/i-hope-that-this-is-true\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope That This is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/okay_this_is_getting_interesting.php\">Florida Republicans are accusing Florida Democrats of sponsoring the Florida Tea Party<\/a>, which is actually an officially registered party in Florida:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 102);\"><p>Now, as Christina explained  today, Republicans are claiming that the whole Florida Tea Party (FTP) operation is actually a plot by Democrats to field a lot of potemkin candidates who show up on the ballot with the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; label so that right-wing Republicans split their votes (between the GOP candidate and the &#8216;Tea Party&#8217; candidate) and thus make it possible for a lot of vulnerable Democrats to slip through.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Republicans who are complaining about this don&#8217;t have the goods. Not enough to prove it at least. But there&#8217;s enough there to arouse suspicion. A lot of the candidates signed up at the last moment, many are young and have little if any political or even voting history and a number have past ties to the Democratic party. Republicans frequently help Green Party candidates get on the ballot. And if the shoe were on the other foot I think Dems would be suspicious too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans have been bankrolling the Green Party in various forms for decades, contributing not only money, but signatures for ballot access.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this is true and I hope that it continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall is reporting that Florida Republicans are accusing Florida Democrats of sponsoring the Florida Tea Party, which is actually an officially registered party in Florida: Now, as Christina explained today, Republicans are claiming that the whole Florida Tea Party (FTP) operation is actually a plot by Democrats to field a lot of potemkin candidates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188984"}],"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=188984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}