{"id":5811,"date":"2010-04-05T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:38:21","slug":"breaking-news-gordon-allen-pross-is-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/04\/05\/breaking-news-gordon-allen-pross-is-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Gordon Allen Pross is running!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that on March 9, 2010 <\/a>Gordon Allen Pross made it as official as these things can be made.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is to say, he put up his customary website.<\/p>\n

Gordon Allen Pross.\u00c2\u00a0 Will be running for the Republican nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 For United States Senate.<\/p>\n

He’s run for the House\u00c2\u00a0or the Senate every election season since 1998.\u00c2\u00a0 He was the Democratic nominee for the fourth Congressional District in 1998, which naturally just served to remind the Democrats to get a goddamned candidate<\/em> from then on out.<\/p>\n

And apparently, in 2007, he made a bid for the Presidency<\/a>, to honor the memory of Tim Russert?<\/em><\/p>\n

Honestly, I didn’t notice he was running.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is unfortunate.\u00c2\u00a0 Because if I had noticed, I’d surely have left a blog post noting it, and thus the percentage of the “100% Censorship” would have been lowered to… I guess the\u00c2\u00a099.999% level?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>I guess I didn’t notice it because of all that censorship?<\/p>\n

Really, I’m pretty sure he could have gotten his name on the New Hampshire ballot with a little effort.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m pretty sure if he sent a letter to some small town newspapers in his area, the papers would have published his letter — gotta fill the space next to the Bridge Column somehow.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, we’re back to the parable:\u00c2\u00a0if a bear pisses in the woods, and nobody’s there to see it — ???<\/p>\n

Just to be sure, he has his sites on Patty Murray, as you can see with his utilization of 2 “Don’t Tread on Me” snake images and a picture of Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, as he runs with a mix of William Jennings Bryan flair with a “GOLD~SILVER~STANDARD“<\/strong> and something about Axe Tax, almost but not quite set up in a “Cross”.<\/p>\n

I may have finally soured on this type of\u00c2\u00a0political run.\u00c2\u00a0 I once thought of them as a decent enough\u00c2\u00a0diversion for our democratic system — everyone gets to the starting line — this will sort away.\u00c2\u00a0 But it occurs to me that Serious Times call for a grim item of utmost Seriousness.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If I was once inclined to vaguely encourage this type of thing, I am now inclined to vaguely discourage them.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, this thing doesn’t occupy all that much space, but — ???<\/p>\n

And with Gordon Allen Pross, I once again keep coming back to the question:\u00c2\u00a0 What does this man think he’s doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that on March 9, 2010 Gordon Allen Pross made it as official as these things can be made.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is to say, he put up his customary website. Gordon Allen Pross.\u00c2\u00a0 Will be running for the Republican nomination.\u00c2\u00a0 For United States Senate. He’s run for the House\u00c2\u00a0or the Senate every election season since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}