{"id":227246,"date":"2010-01-25T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74713"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:37:15","slug":"demint-hires-amanda-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227246","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Hires Amanda Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The senator from South Carolina <a href=\"http:\/\/demint.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&amp;PressRelease_id=6726572c-f738-f390-26b5-dc6d5018aa45\">has hired one<\/a> of The Washington Times&#8217; star reporters &#8212; and a frequent cable news guest &#8212; as his senior communications adviser. From the announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>January 25, 2010<\/strong> &#8211; WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, announced he has hired Washington Times reporter Amanda Carpenter as senior communications advisor and speechwriter.<span id=\"more-74713\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmanda is an exceptionally talented writer and I\u2019m proud to welcome her to our team,\u201d said Senator DeMint. \u201cShe has spent years reporting on the failures of out-of-control government, and she is committed to advancing solutions that increase freedom and opportunity for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve long admired Senator DeMint for the battles he&#8217;s waged to limit the size of government and decrease spending,&#8221; said Carpenter. &#8220;He is a relentless advocate for conservative principles. I&#8217;m thrilled to join his team and help promote those ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ms. Carpenter has worked for Townhall.com, Townhall Magazine and Human Events newspaper. She was also a weekly conservative writer for Glamour Magazine\u2019s 2008 election blog. She graduated from Ball State University (Indiana) in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senator from South Carolina has hired one of The Washington Times&#8217; star reporters &#8212; and a frequent cable news guest &#8212; as his senior communications adviser. From the announcement: January 25, 2010 &#8211; WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, announced he has hired Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}