{"id":13567,"date":"2013-12-21T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T01:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13567"},"modified":"2013-12-21T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T01:45:36","slug":"stockman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/12\/21\/stockman\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meh.\u00c2\u00a0 You run a “low fi” against the “Big Money Establishment” campaign, here’s what you get<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Following last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revelation that Stockman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign office, described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unsafe for habitation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was shut down, Talking Points Memo filed a request to see the photos of the condemned building, and they obtained photos showing what looks like the decaying debris and detritus of a dilapidated dorm room.<\/em><\/p>\n

New meaning to the phrase “mud slinger”…<\/p>\n

Or… something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas Republican Senate candidate Steve Stockman has nowhere near the millions of dollars his GOP opponent Sen. John Cornyn has, but the tea party congressman has a novel fundraising ploy: selling Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u0153barf bags.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis:<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Jason Stanford, a Texas Democratic political consultant, sees the race as a useful way to unravel one of the central mysteries about Stockman\u00e2\u20ac\u201done that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been asked many times throughout his career: Is he serious?<\/em><\/p>\n

Such is the meaning of all of these Republican Primary battles, though.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meh.\u00c2\u00a0 You run a “low fi” against the “Big Money Establishment” campaign, here’s what you get… Following last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revelation that Stockman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign office, described as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unsafe for habitation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was shut down, Talking Points Memo filed a request to see the photos of the condemned building, and they obtained photos showing what looks like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}