{"id":6117,"date":"2010-07-14T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T01:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:32:24","slug":"checking-in-on-charles-djou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6117\/checking-in-on-charles-djou\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in on Charles Djou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal readers may recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/554-hawaiis-charles-djou-the-next-scott-brown- \" target=\"_blank\">CFIF profiled then-candidate Charles Djou\u2019s special election campaign<\/a> for Hawaii\u2019s first congressional district.\u00a0 Since winning the seat in May Djou has gone from a hard-working underdog to a targeted incumbent working hard to get reelected in the heavily Democrat district.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/house\/new-rep-charles-djou-assumes-r.html?wprss=thefix \" target=\"_blank\">two months in office<\/a>, Djou voted against the Democrats\u2019 overhaul of the financial industry, for the repeal of the military\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy and praised President Barack Obama on the floor of the House for pursuing a trade agreement with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>If Djou pulls out a win in November, he\u2019ll continue the Aloha State\u2019s history of not voting out an incumbent member of Congress.\u00a0 Faced with the prospect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanabusa2010.com\/issues \" target=\"_blank\">the alternative<\/a>,\u00a0conservatives everywhere should be praying for at least two more years of Charles Djou in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal readers may recall CFIF profiled then-candidate Charles Djou\u2019s special election campaign for Hawaii\u2019s first congressional district.\u00a0 Since winning the seat in May Djou has gone from a hard-working underdog to a targeted incumbent working hard to get reelected in the heavily Democrat district. During his two months in office, Djou voted against the Democrats\u2019 [&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":[782,1081,84],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-charles-djou","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}