{"id":154,"date":"2005-11-22T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=154"},"modified":"2005-11-22T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T22:14:18","slug":"gop-deserts-moderates-ideals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/gop-deserts-moderates-ideals\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Deserts \r\n\r\nModerates, Ideals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/letters\/410129opinion11-22-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOP Deserts <\/p>\n<p>Moderates, Ideals<\/p>\n<p>    DURING THE recent Albuquerque election, I received several fliers from the office of the chairman of the <\/p>\n<p>Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>    None of them promoted the Republican candidates or their records. None of them contributed to informing the <\/p>\n<p>public about current political issues. <strong>All of them slammed the Democrats.<\/strong> They did not sit well with me. I think it was <\/p>\n<p>just the final straw, and they caused me to vote for a Democrat, something I haven&#8217;t done for years.<\/p>\n<p>    Since <strong>the <\/p>\n<p>takeover of the Republican Party by the conservatives<\/strong>, I have slowly realized that <strong>there is no room in the party for <\/p>\n<p>moderate-thinking members<\/strong> <span class=\"mine\">[mjh: the Radical Right calls moderate Republicans <acronym title=\"Republicans In \n\nName Only\">RINOs<\/acronym>]<\/span>. The party has abandoned traditional Republican values such as small government and balanced budgets. <\/p>\n<p>They have introduced new standards of government that are based not on public need but political payback. The image of that ignorant FEMA <\/p>\n<p>chief still gives me heartburn. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    The Republicans have taken the U.S. to record trade deficits. &#8230; They have cut the <\/p>\n<p>effectiveness or are attempting to cut the effectiveness of all major environmental laws including those that protect our water, our air <\/p>\n<p>and our public lands. No consideration is given to protecting the public. &#8230;<br \/>\n    J.W. TANNER<br \/>\n    Albuquerque<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor GOP Deserts Moderates, Ideals DURING THE recent Albuquerque election, I received several fliers from the office of the chairman of the Republican Party. None of them promoted the Republican candidates or their records. None of them contributed to informing the public about current political issues. All of them slammed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/other-voices\/gop-deserts-moderates-ideals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP Deserts <\/p>\n<p>Moderates, Ideals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}