{"id":2917,"date":"2008-07-23T05:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2008-07-23T05:20:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T10:20:30","slug":"with-all-due-haste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"With All Due Haste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from Pennsylvania; the campaign to expunge John Murtha from Congress seems to get <a href=\"http:\/\/russellbrigade.com\/2008\/07\/grassroots-contributions-challenge-murtha-war-chest-in-pa%e2%80%99s-12th\/\">getting some financial traction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The campaign of Johnstown resident and Republican nominee for Congress Lt. Colonel Bill Russell outpaced incumbent Congressman John Murtha in the second fundraising quarter of 2008. According to campaign manager, Peg Luksik, William Russell for Congress reported raising $<strong>637,137<\/strong> to Murtha\u2019s $<strong>113,155<\/strong> to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). The combined totals from the first and second quarters of 2008 exceed $900,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incredible story about Bill\u2019s campaign is that the $15 and $25 contributions are coming in from all over Pennsylvania and every corner of the country,\u201d said Luksik. \u201cThis is K-Street versus Main Street. These are patriotic families expressing support for soldiers, sailors and Marines, and people saying they\u2019ve had enough of the old \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 culture in the Capitol. That\u2019s what\u2019s fueling this campaign.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer candidate, or a worse Congressman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Luksik] continued, \u201cBill is currently on active duty with the Army. That means he can\u2019t campaign, he can\u2019t direct campaign activities and simply can\u2019t be a candidate. The \u2018Russell Brigade\u2019 is forming around Bill\u2019s personal story and motivation for running. There\u2019s something really special going on in this race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Colonel Russell will resume campaigning on August 1st at 12:01am with a marathon, 48-hour campaign tour. Russell and his wife Kasia are survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon. He has served in the U.S. Army for 28 years of Active and Reserve service, including six tours in hostile fire zones. His deployments include Operation Desert Storm, action in Kosovo and most recently Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t they call that &#8220;absolute moral authority?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from Pennsylvania; the campaign to expunge John Murtha from Congress seems to get getting some financial traction: The campaign of Johnstown resident and Republican nominee for Congress Lt. Colonel Bill Russell outpaced incumbent Congressman John Murtha in the second fundraising quarter of 2008. According to campaign manager, Peg Luksik, William Russell for Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}