{"id":11504,"date":"2011-09-30T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:47:56","slug":"tea-party-express-backs-lugar%e2%80%99s-primary-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11504\/tea-party-express-backs-lugar%e2%80%99s-primary-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Express Backs Lugar\u2019s Primary Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/Richard-Mourdock-Tea-Party-Express-endorsement-209060-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roll Call<\/em><\/a>, it\u2019s official: there will be at least one incumbent Republican senator having to defend his record against Tea Party criticisms next year.\u00a0 The Tea Party Express, a group known for helping challengers Sharron Angle (NV), Joe Miller (AK), and Christine O\u2019Donnell (DE) win Republican primaries, is backing Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock\u2019s bid to replace Senator Richard Lugar.<\/p>\n<p>Though Mourdock presumably appreciates the support, he probably wants a better finish then the three mentioned above.\u00a0 All lost in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Roll Call, it\u2019s official: there will be at least one incumbent Republican senator having to defend his record against Tea Party criticisms next year.\u00a0 The Tea Party Express, a group known for helping challengers Sharron Angle (NV), Joe Miller (AK), and Christine O\u2019Donnell (DE) win Republican primaries, is backing Indiana State Treasurer Richard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,781,2399,2614,28],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-indiana","tag-richard-lugar","tag-richard-mourdock","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}