{"id":121,"date":"2002-12-08T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2002-12-08T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=121"},"modified":"2002-12-08T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2002-12-08T15:53:31","slug":"dont-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/08\/dont-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, those silly, democracy-loving Republicans. Always ready to take the high-road in politics, aren’t they?<\/p>\n

In Louisiana, a Democrat Wins a Tough Senate Race<\/a>
\nWith a last-minute outcropping of anti-Landrieu signs, the Republicans did their best to suppress the black vote so crucial to Ms. Landrieu’s fortunes.
\nThe new signs, paid for by the Louisiana Republican Party, said: “Mary: If you don’t respect us, don’t expect us.”The quotation was from a popular black official, State Senator Cleo Fields, who had initially been cool to Ms. Landrieu’s candidacy because she had not supported his bid for governor and because he believed that she was taking the black vote for granted. Mr. Fields later endorsed Ms. Landrieu.
\nThe Republicans paid black youths $75 today to hold the signs aloft on street corners in black neighborhoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How is the opposition party going to match this? Perhaps by hiring Christians to wear t-shirts to church with this message: Armageddon scheduled for Election Day&#8212God says “Stay home!&#8221<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, those silly, democracy-loving Republicans. Always ready to take the high-road in politics, aren’t they? In Louisiana, a Democrat Wins a Tough Senate Race With a last-minute outcropping of anti-Landrieu signs, the Republicans did their best to suppress the black vote so crucial to Ms. Landrieu’s fortunes. The new signs, paid for by the Louisiana… Continue reading Don’t Vote<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-1X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}