{"id":7602,"date":"2010-11-03T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2010-11-03T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:03:22","slug":"sen-demint%e2%80%99s-welcome-letter-to-newly-elected-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7602\/sen-demint%e2%80%99s-welcome-letter-to-newly-elected-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. DeMint\u2019s Welcome Letter to Newly Elected Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) offers some <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704141104575588612828579920.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\" target=\"_blank\">great advice to newly elected conservative colleagues<\/a> like Marco Rubio and Rand Paul: stay true to your campaign promises of less government and more freedom.\u00a0 Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1)\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t request earmarks \u2013 they obligate you to take bad votes<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0\u00a0 Hire conservative staff \u2013 they help you avoid mistakes<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0\u00a0 Beware of committees \u2013 in the Senate, all members can legislate from the floor<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t seek titles \u2013 every Senator has the privilege to speak and be heard, regardless of seniority<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t let your reelection become more important than your job \u2013 breaking campaign promises for the sake of being reelected ensures you won\u2019t be<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DeMint\u2019s brief column should go on the wall of every incoming Senate conservative\u2019s office as a reminder of why they are in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) offers some great advice to newly elected conservative colleagues like Marco Rubio and Rand Paul: stay true to your campaign promises of less government and more freedom.\u00a0 Here are the highlights: (1)\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t request earmarks \u2013 they obligate you to take bad votes (2)\u00a0\u00a0 Hire conservative staff \u2013 they help you [&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":[928,2029,271,352,669,38],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-earmark","tag-jim-demint","tag-marco-rubio","tag-rand-paul","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","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=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}