{"id":2067,"date":"2007-01-07T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/nra-pressured-to-resist-bush-energy-policies\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T05:08:09","slug":"nra-pressured-to-resist-bush-energy-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/nra-pressured-to-resist-bush-energy-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA Pressured To Resist Bush Energy Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/06\/AR2007010601300.html?referrer=email\">NRA Pressured To Resist Bush Energy Policies<\/a> By Blaine Harden, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>After years of close association with the Republican Party and hard-nosed opposition to federal land-use regulation, the National Rifle Association is being pressured by its membership to distance itself from President Bush&#8217;s energy policies that have opened more public land for oil and gas drilling and limited access to hunters and anglers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bush administration has placed more emphasis on oil and gas than access rights for hunters,&#8221; said Ronald L. Schmeits, second vice president of the NRA, a member of its board of directors and a bank president in Raton, N.M. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, during the past six years, an increasing number of the country&#8217;s 46 million hunters and anglers, including Republican-leaning shooting organizations such as the Boone and Crockett Club, have been grumbling about the Bush&#8217;s administration fast-tracking of oil and gas drilling leases on public lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA Pressured To Resist Bush Energy Policies By Blaine Harden, Washington Post Staff Writer After years of close association with the Republican Party and hard-nosed opposition to federal land-use regulation, the National Rifle Association is being pressured by its membership to distance itself from President Bush&#8217;s energy policies that have opened more public land for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/nra-pressured-to-resist-bush-energy-policies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRA Pressured To Resist Bush Energy Policies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}