{"id":43776,"date":"2014-04-17T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43776"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:33:34","slug":"ltc-ernst-emerges-as-front-runner-in-iowa-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43776","title":{"rendered":"LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=43777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Joni-Ernst-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Joni-Ernst\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Joni-Ernst-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Joni-Ernst-442x333.jpg 442w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Joni-Ernst-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Joni-Ernst.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Country Singer sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/iraq-war-veteran-emerges-as-republican-frontrunner-in-iowa-senate-race\/\">Free Beacon<\/a> which claims that Iraq War veteran and current battalion commander of the Iowa National Guard&#8217;s 185th CSSB, Lieutenant Colonel Joni Ernst has emerged as the front runner for the seat of phony Vietnam veteran Senator Tom Harkin;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ernst has 25 percent support among likely primary goers, followed closely by wealthy businessman Mark Jacobs with 23 percent. The other three candidates received less than 10 percent, while 40 percent are still undecided for the June 3 primary.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ernst told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview that a strong military \u201cis a must in order to remain a world player.\u201d Defense budget cuts known as sequestration could drain almost $1 trillion from the Pentagon in the next decade if they remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s especially important as we look at Syria, Iran, what has happened in Egypt, and North Korea, that we have a strong stamp whether it\u2019s foreign policy or national defense,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re in Iowa, things might be looking up for your representation in the Senate after decades of being represented by a proven liar. By the way, according to AKO she&#8217;s branched as an LG officer &#8211; Logistics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer sends us a link to the Free Beacon which claims that Iraq War veteran &hellip; <a title=\"LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43776\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LTC Ernst emerges as front runner in Iowa Senate race<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776","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=43776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}