{"id":9371,"date":"2011-04-20T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:53:00","slug":"club-for-growth-to-lugar-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9371\/club-for-growth-to-lugar-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Club for Growth to Lugar: Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/club_for_growth_leader_suggests_lugar_abandon_re_election_bid-205045-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10170:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roll Call<\/em><\/a> says Club for Growth President Chris Chocola is readying his group for another take-down effort of a moderate GOP senator.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chocola, a former Congressman from Indiana who served in the House from 2003 to 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/04\/club-for-growth-president-on-lugar-best-if-he-would-retire.html\" target=\"_blank\">told ABC\u2019s \u201cTop Line\u201d<\/a> that his fiscally conservative organization is considering getting involved in Lugar\u2019s 2012 re-election campaign in the Hoosier State. The club has already met with Lugar\u2019s primary opponent, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Club for Growth already helped scare former Senator Arlen Specter into switching parties rather than face one-time CG president Pat Toomey in a primary.\u00a0 Specter wound up losing the Democratic nomination to former Rep. Joe Sestak.\u00a0 Toomey ultimately prevailed in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>With Lugar\u2019s (lack of) <a href=\"http:\/\/realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com\/2011\/02\/18\/questions-raised-about-lugars-residency\/\" target=\"_blank\">residency<\/a> in Indiana and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2006\/0609.larson.html\" target=\"_blank\">tutelage<\/a> of President Barack Obama likely to become campaign issues, Indiana just might elect a conservative the rest of America deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll Call says Club for Growth President Chris Chocola is readying his group for another take-down effort of a moderate GOP senator. Chocola, a former Congressman from Indiana who served in the House from 2003 to 2007, told ABC\u2019s \u201cTop Line\u201d that his fiscally conservative organization is considering getting involved in Lugar\u2019s 2012 re-election campaign [&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":[841,30,364,781,1308,31,2399,2614],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-arlen-specter","tag-club-for-growth","tag-indiana","tag-joe-sestak","tag-pat-toomey","tag-richard-lugar","tag-richard-mourdock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371","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=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}