{"id":44870,"date":"2014-06-17T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44870"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:14:22","slug":"open-letter-to-representatives-paulsen-bachmann-and-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44870","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Representatives Paulsen, Bachmann And Kline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Representatives Paulsen, Bachmann and Kline<br \/>\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, &#8220;Extremist&#8221;<br \/>\nRe:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Representatives,<\/p>\n<p>Who do you plan on voting for to replace Eric Cantor for Majority Leader?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fairly simple question &#8211; but one that&#8217;ll tell us, the voters, a lot about where you stand on the future of the GOP majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My sentiments should be obvious; I say vote for Raoul Labrador.\u00a0 Put a serious conservative in the office.\u00a0 While there is a place and time to play nice with the Dems, and make political compromises that need to be made, the time to do that playing and making is <em>not <\/em>right out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP needs to be an <em>alternative <\/em>to the Democrat party &#8211; not an extension of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d appreciate, personally, a vote for Labrador &#8211; but I&#8217;m not in any of your districts, so you needn&#8217;t concern yourself with my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>But you should tell your constituents, and Minnesota republicans, where you stand on the future leadership of the House conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Representatives Paulsen, Bachmann and Kline From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, &#8220;Extremist&#8221; Re:\u00a0 Representatives, Who do you plan on voting for to replace Eric Cantor for Majority Leader?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fairly simple question &#8211; but one that&#8217;ll tell us, the voters, a lot about where you stand on the future of the GOP majority.\u00a0 My sentiments should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-44870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-republicans","tag-ope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870","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=44870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45097,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44870\/revisions\/45097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}