{"id":20024,"date":"2014-02-24T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20024"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:15:33","slug":"the-nut-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20024","title":{"rendered":"The Nut Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy people are parading around NC, each trying to get someone to pin the SENATOR tag on him\/her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/post\/nc-republican-candidates-us-senate-race-could-split-vote\n\">As the sponsors<\/a> of a group called Lake Norman Conservatives opened a recent candidate forum with a country song [Lee Greenwood's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WOv4g552h5E\">God Bless The USA<\/a>\"], ob-gyn Greg Brannon, Army veteran Heather Grant, and Pastor Mark Harris sat down before an enthusiastic crowd of potential voters to answer a wide range of questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Brannon told them a return to the gold standard would help shore up pensions: \"With a gold standard, our GDP grew an average of 4 percent a year. We get back to that, that\u2019s being a senator, that\u2019s finding a plan to fix the problem.\"\n<li>Heather Grant advocated scrapping the EPA: \"Your state should regulate your environmental protections. Because who better knows about what your state environment is than your actual state.\"\n<li>Pastor Mark Harris, made it clear he doesn\u2019t like the Affordable Care Act: \"I am one of those that believes you can\u2019t fix Obamacare, you need to repeal Obamacare.\"\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope either the gold bug or the scrap-the-EPA woman wins the primary! That will save me from having to contribute any money to Kay Hagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy people are parading around NC, each trying to get someone to pin the SENATOR tag on him\/her. As the sponsors of a group called Lake Norman Conservatives opened a recent candidate forum with a country song [Lee Greenwood's \"God Bless The USA\"], ob-gyn Greg Brannon, Army veteran Heather Grant, and Pastor Mark Harris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20031,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions\/20031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}