{"id":3908,"date":"2010-02-22T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2010-02-22T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:11:28","slug":"the-rise-of-independent-pacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3908\/the-rise-of-independent-pacs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Independent PACs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you looking for more information about groups that connect and fund fiscally responsible congressional candidates, be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcaucus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independence Caucus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/the-freshmen-50.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Freshman 50 PAC<\/a>.\u00a0 I-Caucus was the driving force behind defeating an incumbent Republican congressman with a fiscally conservative primary opponent, while The Freshman 50 is aiming to elect fifty new members of Congress to stop deficit spending.\u00a0 Both groups are unaffiliated with any political party.\u00a0 This election cycle, independents are not only the most important voters \u2013 they\u2019re also becoming the most important grassroots organizers.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35729 \" target=\"_blank\">Jed Babbin at <em>Human Events<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you looking for more information about groups that connect and fund fiscally responsible congressional candidates, be sure to check out the Independence Caucus and The Freshman 50 PAC.\u00a0 I-Caucus was the driving force behind defeating an incumbent Republican congressman with a fiscally conservative primary opponent, while The Freshman 50 is aiming to [&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":[886,885],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-freshman-50-pac","tag-independent-caucus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","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=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}