{"id":28406,"date":"2012-01-21T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28406"},"modified":"2012-01-21T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:30:19","slug":"obama-operative-caught-in-dirty-trick-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28406","title":{"rendered":"Obama operative caught in dirty trick scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Edwards, 29, of Des Moines, Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 Iowa New Media Director, was arrested yesterday for stealing the Iowa Secretary of State&#8217;s identity in order to the appearance that Matt Schultz, and his brother Thomas <a href=\"http:\/\/theiowarepublican.com\/2012\/breaking-former-obama-staffer-busted-for-stealing-iowa-secretary-of-state%E2%80%99s-identity\/\">were involved in illegal activities<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zach Edwards\u2019 bio on Link Strategies website says he joined the Obama campaign in early 2007 as an intern in Nevada. He eventually joined the New Media department and directed their operations in five other primary states. He was the Iowa Director of New Media for Barack Obama\u2019s general election campaign. After the election, Edwards joined Link Strategies, \u201cwhere he provides innovative web-based research tools, video analysis and production, and web-based communication tools to assist our clients,\u201d according to the bio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess Chicago politics don&#8217;t work so well in Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Edwards, 29, of Des Moines, Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 Iowa New Media Director, was arrested yesterday &hellip; <a title=\"Obama operative caught in dirty trick scheme\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28406\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama operative caught in dirty trick scheme<\/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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28406","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=28406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}