{"id":15057,"date":"2013-11-05T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2013-11-05T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T14:40:12","slug":"hate-has-no-home-in-representation-congressional-candidate-for-nc3-parts-company-with-the-gop-to-run-on-the-democratic-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/05\/hate-has-no-home-in-representation-congressional-candidate-for-nc3-parts-company-with-the-gop-to-run-on-the-democratic-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate has no home in Representation \u2013 Congressional candidate for NC3 parts company with the GOP to run on the Democratic ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Thigpen has the article <a title=\"Thigpen Campaign article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thigpenforcongress.com\/hate-has-no-home-in-representation-congressional-candidate-for-nc3-parts-company-with-the-gop-to-run-on-the-democratic-ticket-by-christopher-dean\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hate has no home in Representation \u2013 Congressional candidate for NC3 parts company with the GOP to run on the Democratic ticket By Christopher Dean<\/strong><\/a> on his campaign web site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d says Jason R. Thigpen \u2013 formerly a Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House in North Carolina\u2019s 3rd Congressional District. \u201cAfter discussing it with my wife and family, I\u2019ve decided to run as a Democrat rather than a Republican. I simply cannot stand with a Party where its most extreme element promote hate and division amongst people. Nothing about my platform has, nor will it change. The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn\u2019t good enough anymore and I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn\u2019t walk their line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There seems to be little choice for a moderate who is in the Republican Party, but to switch to a Party that has room for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Thigpen has the article Hate has no home in Representation \u2013 Congressional candidate for NC3 parts company with the GOP to run on the Democratic ticket By Christopher Dean on his campaign web site. \u201cEnough is enough,\u201d says Jason R. Thigpen \u2013 formerly a Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House in North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15058,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}