{"id":18378,"date":"2010-04-05T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18378"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:57:43","slug":"meet-tim-burns-in-pas-12th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18378","title":{"rendered":"Meet Tim Burns in PA&#8217;s 12th district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hawkins at <a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnews.com\/2010\/04\/an-interview-with-tim-burns-the-man-running-for-john-murthas-seat-on-may-18-2010\/\">Right Wing News<\/a> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timburnsforcongress.com\/#_\">Tim Burns<\/a> who is running as a Republican in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 12th District, the seat recently vacated by the late John Murtha;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim, you&#8217;ve done some work on the tea parties. Can you talk about that a little bit?<\/p>\n<p>Sure. Before I was a candidate, I organized the first tea party here in Washington County &#8212; my home county. I got a great response there. From there, I spoke at another one of the tea parties, got involved in that movement, and was actually encouraged to run for Congress. That&#8217;s really how I got involved in this race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m aware of the controversy over Burns&#8217; selection that has put him at odds with veterans because he was picked by the local party apparatchiks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicspa.com\/breaking-news-republicans-pick-burns\/7936\/\">over Bill Russell<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hawkins at Right Wing News interviews Tim Burns who is running as a Republican in &hellip; <a title=\"Meet Tim Burns in PA&#8217;s 12th district\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18378\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet Tim Burns in PA&#8217;s 12th district<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18378","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=18378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}