{"id":4653,"date":"2010-04-08T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:03:21","slug":"hawaiis-charles-djou-continues-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4653\/hawaiis-charles-djou-continues-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii&#8217;s Charles Djou Continues to Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know a candidate is a serious contender when the opposition starts blasting away.\u00a0 The problem for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is that Republican Charles Djou is about as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djou.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">squeaky clean<\/a> as congressional candidates come.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/554-hawaiis-charles-djou-the-next-scott-brown- \" target=\"_blank\">recent subject of a CFIF profile<\/a>, Djou is running hard on a platform of low taxes and economic growth, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atr.org\/dccc-attacks-charles-djou-false-claims-a4756 \" target=\"_blank\">signing the Americans for Tax Reform pledge<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course, to the DCCC\u2019s ears, that sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Nf6b9tjxHk \" target=\"_blank\">backhanding the economic little guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since Hawaii\u2019s economy relies heavily on tourist dollars, it isn\u2019t likely that Aloha State voters will buy what national Democrats are selling, even if House leadership <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20100408\/NEWS01\/4080341\/Djou+slams+Mainland+group+s+new+ads \" target=\"_blank\">decides to back one of the two contenders challenging Djou<\/a> in the open special election on May 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, voters just prefer good, honest, straightforward candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know a candidate is a serious contender when the opposition starts blasting away.\u00a0 The problem for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is that Republican Charles Djou is about as squeaky clean as congressional candidates come.\u00a0 The recent subject of a CFIF profile, Djou is running hard on a platform of low taxes and [&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":[104,1081,84,1083,1082],"class_list":["post-4653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-americans-for-tax-reform","tag-charles-djou","tag-congress","tag-dccc","tag-hawaii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653","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=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}