{"id":14306,"date":"2014-09-27T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14306"},"modified":"2014-09-27T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:42:29","slug":"how-we-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/09\/27\/how-we-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"How we Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinalive.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=1101288#.VCdWlbFMl_c\">Wait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu&#8217;s leading Republican opponent says she shouldn&#8217;t have helped a Louisiana State University football fan drink upside-down from a beer keg at a recent tailgate party.<br \/>\nRepublican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy said people shouldn&#8217;t applaud the widely circulated photo of Landrieu holding a spigot to pour beer into a man&#8217;s mouth.<br \/>\nCiting his work as a doctor and his role as a parent, the GOP congressman said Wednesday that &#8220;keg stands&#8221; and other binge-drinking activities should be discouraged and are not &#8220;something to celebrate.&#8221;<br \/>\nLandrieu, in a tight race for a fourth term, has shrugged off criticism that&#8217;s resulted mostly on social media, saying people &#8220;need to get a sense of humor.&#8221; Tailgating and keg stands, she said, are &#8220;just the way we roll&#8221; in Louisiana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never trust anyone who says &#8220;That&#8217;s just the way we roll&#8221;, particularly when it&#8217;s followed by &#8220;in geographic designation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Oregon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2014\/09\/26\/merkley-continues-hammer-wehby-plagiarism\/16273551\/\">Monica Wehby&#8217;s campaign has cribbed <\/a>from their benefactor of Karl Rove&#8217;s group some campaign material, mostly just demonstrating where the politician&#8217;s voting will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wait. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu&#8217;s leading Republican opponent says she shouldn&#8217;t have helped a Louisiana State University football fan drink upside-down from a beer keg at a recent tailgate party. Republican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy said people shouldn&#8217;t applaud the widely circulated photo of Landrieu holding a spigot to pour beer into a man&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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-14306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306","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=14306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14306\/revisions\/14307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}