{"id":56218,"date":"2014-11-04T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56218"},"modified":"2014-11-04T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:03:13","slug":"tah-election-day-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56218","title":{"rendered":"TAH Election Day Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things I love about fall, especially in New England&#8211;the color of the leaves turning before being buried under six feet of snow that I have to shovel out, the cheering of the Patriots fans beating Seyton Manning like a bald-headed stepchild before losing to self-same Seyton in the playoffs, and the smell of the brined turkey about to send me into a coma, just after I finished my share of the kid&#8217;s Halloween candy haul.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I WON&#8217;T miss is the plethora of ads that have inundated the airwaves since about Labor Day, if not before.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, we get it.  Your opponent sucks.  Probably performs ritual sacrifices on small animals, too.  Got it.<\/p>\n<p>In NH, Scott Brown is taking on Jeanne Shaheen in what is pretty much a neck-and-neck race.  Like TSO, I&#8217;m not wild about the guy&#8217;s politics, being a bit mushy, but any guy that wears a Ranger Up shirt automatically gets my vote.  Period.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, one of the Congressional Districts has Iraq vet Seth Moulton going up against Richard Tiesi.  Tiesi is a social liberal, openly gay, and married.  Moulton has FOUR tours of Iraq under his belt.  Oh, and for the record, Moulton is the Democrat who rejected support from pro-LGBT groups.  Dafuq?  Moulton does have one group throwing him lots of cash and paying for lots of airtime&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.votevets.org\/candidates\">VoteVets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, they&#8217;re up to their usual, supporting veterans, including folks like the aforementioned Scott Brown, Joni Ernst, and Tom Cotton.  Oh wait, they&#8217;re not on VoteVets&#8217; list?  Silly me, those folks are Republicans!  So much for that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, along with a few tidbits, I&#8217;m also including links to our favorite folks of late, to see how they fare in their quest for elected office.  If you find a better link, please send it to me or Jonn and I&#8217;ll update it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakullaelection.com\/\">Steve Cushman<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Steve-Cushman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Cushman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-55743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ms.gov\/Elections-Voting\/Pages\/Results-2014.aspx\">Flemron Dickey<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ron-Dickey-150x150.png\" alt=\"Ron Dickey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-54114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.josephine.or.us\/Page.asp?NavID=771\">Daryld &#8220;Gil&#8221; Gilberston<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56142\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56142\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gun-control-pushback_lea-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Gilbertson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-56142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinalcountyaz.gov\/elections\/Pages\/ElectionResults.aspx\">John Acton<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Acton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Acton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-56111\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all the candidates highlighted here.  May you receive many warm handshakes and bowls of soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things I love about fall, especially in New England&#8211;the color of the leaves &hellip; <a title=\"TAH Election Day Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56218\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAH Election Day Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56218","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}