{"id":17515,"date":"2013-03-21T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17515"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:22:34","slug":"at-the-hayride-louisiana-more-on-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17515\/at-the-hayride-louisiana-more-on-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Hayride (Louisiana), More on Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacAoidh, lead blogger at the Hayride in Louisiana, follows up my column today with a brilliant and <a href=\"http:\/\/thehayride.com\/2013\/03\/why-is-vitters-anti-perez-bandwagon-empty\/\" target=\"_blank\">detailed analysis <\/a>of the state of play in the Bayou State with regard to shenanigans by Tom Perez and the Civil Rights Division concerning Louisiana\u2019s voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>The Hayride explains that Perez has led\u00a0 \u201da <a href=\"http:\/\/thehayride.com\/2011\/07\/holders-war-on-louisiana-has-officially-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\">frivolous and abusive lawsuit<\/a> against the state of Louisiana under the Motor Voter law, in which a state where some 84 percent of eligible adults are registered to vote (4th in the nation) somehow doesn\u2019t register welfare recipients to vote with sufficient vigor at the offices where public benefits are dispensed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hayride explains why making, uh, hay of this lawsuit and the Perez judicial nomination should be seen as \u201cpolitical manna from heaven\u201d for Louisiana conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacAoidh, lead blogger at the Hayride in Louisiana, follows up my column today with a brilliant and detailed analysis of the state of play in the Bayou State with regard to shenanigans by Tom Perez and the Civil Rights Division concerning Louisiana\u2019s voter rolls. The Hayride explains that Perez has led\u00a0 \u201da frivolous and abusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2752,4078,3103],"class_list":["post-17515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-civil-rights-division","tag-the-hayride","tag-thomas-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17518,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions\/17518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}