{"id":3960,"date":"2010-09-22T02:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2010-09-22T02:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T07:30:05","slug":"these-liberals-are-really-running-out-of-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/these-liberals-are-really-running-out-of-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"These liberals are really running out of ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A recent letter to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/16\/duncan-supported-out--state-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson Independent<\/a>, again, was supposed to criticize Jeff Duncan, our Republican candidate for Congress (SC-3). It also mentions another fine conservative, Tim Scott, the Republican candidate for SC\u2019s coastal Congressional seat (SC-1):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jeff Duncan owes his soul to his company store: the Club for Growth (CFG).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As a \u201c527\u201d organization, CFG can collect unlimited individual contributions. Dominated by Wall Street financiers and executives, CFG finds candidates it can control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Founder Stephen Moore publicly said that CFG \u201clet candidates know that if they ever voted for a tax increase, we\u2019ll never support them, and in fact, we\u2019ll work to defeat them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Even though he states he\u2019s against the use of earmarks in Congress, Duncan received more than $189,000 earmarked to him from out-of-state donors through CFG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Duncan and District I candidate Tim Scott also received more than $300,000 for primary TV ads and mailers. Duncan has already received an election TV ad from CFG. On his website, Duncan denies being \u201cbeholden to any group.\u201d How can he be so na\u00efve? Does he really think that if he voted against CFG that it would not turn on him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He has been bought and paid for, and now owes his soul to the company store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In other words Duncan and Scott have &#8220;sold their souls&#8221; to the taxpayer, promising never to raise their taxes. Shame on them! Again, often times a liberal\u2019s criticisms come across as being complimentary to the electorate.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent letter to the Anderson Independent, again, was supposed to criticize Jeff Duncan, our Republican candidate for Congress (SC-3). It also mentions another fine conservative, Tim Scott, the Republican candidate for SC\u2019s coastal Congressional seat (SC-1): Jeff Duncan owes his soul to his company store: the Club for Growth (CFG). As a \u201c527\u201d organization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-11S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}