{"id":5119,"date":"2012-08-28T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2012-08-28T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:05:04","slug":"thinkprogress-live-blogs-the-republican-national-convention-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/thinkprogress-live-blogs-the-republican-national-convention-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican National Convention | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/08\/28\/758981\/rnc-tuesday\/?mobile=nc\">ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican National Convention | ThinkProgress<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>10:44<\/strong>: Christie bragged about the tax cuts he\u2019s passed since coming into office. As the Newark Star-Ledger put it, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/njv_editorial_page\/2010\/06\/nj_gov_chris_christie_signs_an.html\">Here are the facts<\/a>: The 16,000 families in New Jersey earning more than $1 millon will get an average tax break of $40,000 apiece under [Christie&#8217;s] budget. At the same time, a single mom working for minimum wage will pay $300 more in state taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:40:<\/strong> CNN is confirming that a Republican attendee was removed after throwing nuts at black CNN camerawoman. The delegate reportedly said, \u201cthis is how we feed animals.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>10:38:<\/strong> Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is touting the fact that his dad went to a publicly funded university, on the publicly funded GI bill, and that his mom traveled on publicly funded transportation. \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:55:<\/strong> Tuesday\u2019s convention theme is \u201cWe Built This,\u201d a riff off of President Obama\u2019s claim that the government can help businesses succeed. Republicans have criticized the argument all summer and will poke fun at the president from a convention center <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/08\/22\/728771\/rnc-we-built-this-stadium-financed-taxpayer\/\">built with tax-payer dollars<\/a>. Two of tonight\u2019s speakers run businesses that benefited from government contracts and grants and one even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/rnc-primetime-speaker-gave-extensive-powerpoint-on\">offered a detailed presentation<\/a> about how businesses can secure more government work. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/08\/28\/758981\/rnc-tuesday\/?mobile=nc\">ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican National Convention | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican National Convention | ThinkProgress 10:44: Christie bragged about the tax cuts he\u2019s passed since coming into office. As the Newark Star-Ledger put it, \u201cHere are the facts: The 16,000 families in New Jersey earning more than $1 millon will get an average tax break of $40,000 apiece under [Christie&#8217;s] budget. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/thinkprogress-live-blogs-the-republican-national-convention-thinkprogress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ThinkProgress Live Blogs The Republican National Convention | ThinkProgress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}