{"id":26355,"date":"2011-08-30T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26355"},"modified":"2011-08-30T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:40:15","slug":"begging-to-be-pied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26355","title":{"rendered":"Begging to be Pie&#8217;d&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicspa.com\/immigration-showdown-in-harrisburg\/27303\/\">Politics PA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBring your flak jacket,\u201d joked one staffer to a member of the Harrisburg press corps.<\/p>\n<p>The next two days in the Capitol will be interesting, to say the least. Today and Tomorrow, Pennsylvania House State Government Committee Majority Chairman Representative Daryl Metcalfe will hold two public hearings focusing on the \u201cNational Security Begins at Home\u201d legislative package.<\/p>\n<p>Following the introduction of 16 bills in the state House and state Senate this past spring regarding illegal immigration, the coming fall will certainly see a flutter of activity and political dispute as both pro and anti-immigration groups try to push their legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Those testifying this week include law enforcement, think tank thinkers, Tea Partiers, and even those who have been accused of ties to white supremacists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so I wasn&#8217;t overly pleased about being called out of Minn to testify between the state house in Pennsylvania, because, honestly, who cares.  Well, I do now, because this could be fun.  Yup, I am appearing tomorrow before this House committee, although I don&#8217;t believe I am a think tanker, a tea partier, or a white supremacist.  But oh man, oh man, how much would I love some protests.  Bring it on SEIU, I&#8217;ll be the guy in the blue tie with the CIB on his collar.  I promise I won&#8217;t even resist, just hit me with a pie.  Preferable Strawberry Rhubarb, because I have a 6.5 hour flight after the hearing, and I would love to eat off my suit.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I expect SPLC to me covering this, so I hope that jackass with the tower of hair Mark Potok is there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Politics PA: \u201cBring your flak jacket,\u201d joked one staffer to a member of the Harrisburg &hellip; <a title=\"Begging to be Pie&#8217;d&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Begging to be Pie&#8217;d&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}