{"id":6824,"date":"2010-08-31T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T15:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2010-09-02T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:39:57","slug":"two-congressional-candidates-to-watch-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6824\/two-congressional-candidates-to-watch-this-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Congressional Candidates to Watch This November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Works<\/a> get-out-the-vote event last Friday night, several conservative luminaries inspired the audience with their speeches.\u00a0 Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), Freedom Works chairman Dick Armey and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorunsgov.com\/politerati\/uncategorized\/c-l-bryant-tea-party-as-underground-railroad\/ \" target=\"_blank\">pastor-turned-Tea Party activist C. L. Bryant<\/a> delivered rousing red meat remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The show stealers, though, were two congressional candidates vying to become part of the freshman class of 2010.\u00a0 Charles Lollar is a Maryland businessman, Major in the Marine Corps Reserves and Republican nominee to challenge House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD).\u00a0 Lollar\u2019s easy smile and personable air are making him a rising star in GOP circles, even if he fails to unseat the multi-term incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Philpot is another candidate to watch.\u00a0 A former member of the Utah legislature, Philpot is known for holding a copy of the U.S. Constitution in one hand and the Communist Manifesto in the other on the floor of the Utah House of Representatives.\u00a0 Before voting on a bill he asks his colleagues to which of the two documents the proposed bill moves the Utah body politic.<\/p>\n<p>CFIF will be keeping an eye on these two candidates in the run-up to the November midterm elections.\u00a0 Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Freedom Works get-out-the-vote event last Friday night, several conservative luminaries inspired the audience with their speeches.\u00a0 Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), Freedom Works chairman Dick Armey and pastor-turned-Tea Party activist C. L. Bryant delivered rousing red meat remarks. The show stealers, though, were two congressional candidates vying to become part of the freshman class [&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":[782,1781,1780,366,1782,439,1779,783],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-c-l-bryant","tag-charles-lollar","tag-dick-armey","tag-freedom-works","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-morgan-philpot","tag-steny-hoyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","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=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}