The Fourth CD is one of the more challenging districts in which to be a Republican.<\/p>\n
And this is a challenging year to be <\/em>a Republican, at least if you’re expecting financial support from the state party (hint: there’s not going to be any). \u00a0 The districts – congressional, state senate\/house and county – are bracing for a year of no <\/em>money from the state.<\/p>\n So the Fourth CD GOP, at its convention on the 21st, did the sensible thing; jacked up the admission price for delegates, and started charging for guests. \u00a0They also canvassed aggressively for additional donations.<\/p>\n One upside of this? \u00a0Usually the party raise $5,000 or so at its convention (part of which – $2K or so, if I recall correctly – has to go to cover the cost of rending the hall).<\/p>\n This year? \u00a0More like $11,000.<\/p>\n That’s good news! \u00a0The district’s coffers can get replenished! \u00a0The district’s candidates can look forward to some help!<\/p>\n What could possibly go wrong with that theory?<\/p>\n More later today (or, let’s be honest, maybe tomorrow…).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fourth CD is one of the more challenging districts in which to be a Republican. And this is a challenging year to be a Republican, at least if you’re expecting financial support from the state party (hint: there’s not going to be any). \u00a0 The districts – congressional, state senate\/house and county – are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-27661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27663,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27661\/revisions\/27663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}