{"id":20921,"date":"2010-10-21T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2010-10-26T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:29:19","slug":"retired-colonel-puts-rich-boy-lawyer-in-his-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20921","title":{"rendered":"Retired Colonel puts rich boy in his place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Murphy-Gibson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20925\" title=\"Murphy-Gibson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Murphy-Gibson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Murphy-Gibson.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Murphy-Gibson-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/307122.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a> yesterday, but I&#8217;ve been holding on to it for days like this. It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgibsonforcongress.com\/\">Retired Colonel Chris Gibson<\/a> is facing off with Scott Murphy &#8211; another of those Hah-vahd grads who carpetbagged themselves into New York State. Chris Gibson, on the other hand is a born and bred New Yorker who graduated from Sienna College (near Albany) with an ROTC Commission. Gibson rose through the ranks through four tours of Iraq, a trip to Kosovo and most recently commanded the 2d Brigade Combat Team of the 82d Airborne Division to Haiti. According to his bio, he has a Purple Heart, 4 Bronze Star Medals, 3 Legions of Merit, Ranger Tab and a CIB.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Gibson&#8217;s opponent, what&#8217;s-his-name-snooty-carpetbagger-lawyer-guy, accused Gibson of wanting to send jobs overseas. Go to 1:30 in this video to see his response;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQVgmiAm540?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQVgmiAm540?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it; &#8220;the only thing that I&#8217;ve shipped overseas in the last few years has been myself and my paratroopers to fight for this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/default\/article\/Murphy-draws-boos-at-forum-714444.php\">Albany Times-Union<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A public poll last month showed Murphy leading Gibson, but a Republican-sponsored poll released Tuesday claims Gibson is leading by three points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at Ace of Spades yesterday, but I&#8217;ve been holding on to it &hellip; <a title=\"Retired Colonel puts rich boy in his place\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20921\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retired Colonel puts rich boy in his place<\/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":[89,47,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-liberals-suck","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921","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=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}