{"id":246,"date":"2006-01-17T00:55:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=246"},"modified":"2006-01-16T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:56:08","slug":"he-is-a-bad-version-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/he-is-a-bad-version-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"He \r\n\r\nis a bad version of us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-\n\ndyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/15\/AR2006011500915.html?referrer=email\">In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy<\/a> By <\/p>\n<p>Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>One of the most damaging e-mails was sent by Abramoff to partner Michael Scanlon, <\/p>\n<p>complaining about Reed&#8217;s billing practices and expenditure claims: &#8220;<strong>He is a bad version of us!<\/strong> No more money for him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After Reed first entered national politics as executive director of the Christian Coalition, he described to the Norfolk <\/p>\n<p>Virginian-Pilot his tactics in mobilizing Christian conservatives to sway elections: &#8220;I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I <\/p>\n<p>paint my face and travel at night. You don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s over until you&#8217;re in a body bag. You don&#8217;t know until election night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy By Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post Staff Writer One of the most damaging e-mails was sent by Abramoff to partner Michael Scanlon, complaining about Reed&#8217;s billing practices and expenditure claims: &#8220;He is a bad version of us! No more money for him.&#8221; &#8230; After Reed first entered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/he-is-a-bad-version-of-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He <\/p>\n<p>is a bad version of us!<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}