{"id":9085,"date":"2011-03-30T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2011-03-30T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:47:10","slug":"djou-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9085\/djou-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Djou in the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since former Rep. Charles Djou (R-HI) lost his reelection bid last November.\u00a0 CFIF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54\/554-hawaiis-charles-djou-the-next-scott-brown- \" target=\"_blank\">profiled Djou<\/a> prior to his upset victory in a special election last May.\u00a0 Now, it looks like Djou might run for a U.S. Senate seat, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/56_102\/Djou-Deferring-Lingle-Senate-204437-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10051:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" target=\"_blank\">only if<\/a> former Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI) decides against it.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two, Djou is the more conservative; especially when it comes to fiscal matters.\u00a0 That said, either candidate would certainly be an improvement over retiring Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since former Rep. Charles Djou (R-HI) lost his reelection bid last November.\u00a0 CFIF profiled Djou prior to his upset victory in a special election last May.\u00a0 Now, it looks like Djou might run for a U.S. Senate seat, but only if former Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI) decides against it. Of the [&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":[841,1081,2534,1082,2535],"class_list":["post-9085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-charles-djou","tag-daniel-akaka","tag-hawaii","tag-linda-lingle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085","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=9085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9086,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085\/revisions\/9086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}