{"id":5234,"date":"2010-05-11T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2010-05-11T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:36:38","slug":"dccc-pulls-funding-clearing-path-for-djou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5234\/dccc-pulls-funding-clearing-path-for-djou\/","title":{"rendered":"DCCC Pulls Funding, Clearing Path for Djou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable event is brewing in President Obama\u2019s old childhood stomping grounds (see CFIF\u2019s Ashton Ellis reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/554-hawaiis-charles-djou-the-next-scott-brown-\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has cleared the path for Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou and his congressional bid for Hawaii\u2019s open seat by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0510\/36997.html\">pulling all of its resources<\/a> from his opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 22 special election, the candidates for the seat vacated by Democrat Neil Abercrombie are running without a primary.\u00a0\u00a0 Djou could win, with two candidates splitting the Democratic vote.\u00a0 The DCCC ad pull follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20100502\/NEWS01\/5020349\/Hawaii-Poll-Djou-leads-Democratic-rivals-in-congressional-race\">recent polling<\/a> showing Djou with an 8-point margin over the leading Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Djou would be the first Republican to represent Hawaii in Congress in twenty years and would be only the third member of the GOP to serve as a representative in the island state\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable event is brewing in President Obama\u2019s old childhood stomping grounds (see CFIF\u2019s Ashton Ellis reporting here).\u00a0 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has cleared the path for Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou and his congressional bid for Hawaii\u2019s open seat by pulling all of its resources from his opposition. In a May 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[700,1193,1081,1082],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-elections","tag-campaign","tag-charles-djou","tag-hawaii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}