{"id":10389,"date":"2009-05-05T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2009-05-05T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:41:43","slug":"more-on-the-kokesh-for-congress-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10389","title":{"rendered":"More on the Kokesh for Congress run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10313\"> I offered interviews to the Santa Fe media<\/a> for background on their newest aspiring congressman, Adam Kokesh. They didn&#8217;t take me up on it, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/u-s--house-Activist---ex-Marine--weighs-run-against-Luj-amp-aacute-n\">they wasted no time interviewing Kokesh<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adam Kokesh of Santa Fe, a registered Republican who backed Libertarian candidate Ron Paul in last year&#8217;s GOP presidential primaries, said Friday that he&#8217;s not sure what party banner he might run under \u2014 Republican, Democrat, third party or independent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I represent a wide range of people from parties who are clearly disappointed with the current Democratic Party line,&#8221; Kokesh said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>While he supported Paul, Kokesh, who served in Iraq, also praised U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Ohio Democrat who, like Paul, was a critic of U.S. military actions during last year&#8217;s presidential campaign. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A wide range of people, indeed. From Ron Paul to Dennis Kucinich &#8211; actually probably the same people. The people who don&#8217;t have a clue. I&#8217;m not familiar at all with the demographics of New Mexico, but I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a large number of sane people. But Kokesh knows how to work the media;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked for comment about the potential challenge and Kokesh&#8217;s statement that Luj\u00e1n just wants to be &#8220;part of the club,&#8221; Mark Nicastre, a Luj\u00e1n spokesman said in a prepared statement, &#8220;Rep. Luj\u00e1n is focused on his work in Congress and throughout New Mexico&#8217;s 3rd district. Since January, Rep. Luj\u00e1n has worked with his congressional colleagues to pass legislation that cuts taxes for 95 percent of American workers and puts us on a path to economic recovery, provides health care for millions of children, protects valuable and treasured lands in New Mexico, and moves us toward a clean-energy economy.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His opponent, Lujan, appears to be a moron &#8211; why defend the charge that he&#8217;s a &#8220;part of the club&#8221; by regurgitating the Obama State of the Union Address? But, Adam has a few things to overcome, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kokesh said he doesn&#8217;t have a full-time job. Though he said he does graphic design &#8220;on the side,&#8221; he described himself as a full-time activist. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a real relatable resume` among working Americans. But, then there&#8217;s always Daddy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kokesh is the son of venture capitalist Charles Kokesh, a co-owner of the Santa Fe Horse Park southwest of the city, which earlier this year defaulted on its $2.25 million mortgage. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooops. Maybe Dad can get a bailout from the feds before Adam pisses off his Congressman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I offered interviews to the Santa Fe media for background on their newest &hellip; <a title=\"More on the Kokesh for Congress run\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10389\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on the Kokesh for Congress run<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,30,5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}