{"id":232930,"date":"2010-01-26T18:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74854"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:12:05","slug":"congressman-who-sponsored-resolution-honoring-o%e2%80%99keefe-criticizes-the-landrieu-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232930","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Who Sponsored Resolution Honoring O\u2019Keefe Criticizes the Landrieu Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In October, freshman Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=hr111-809\">introduced a resolution<\/a> honoring James O&#8217;Keefe and Hannah Giles for their ACORN sting. Thirty-one Republicans co-sponsored the resolution. Tonight, I asked Olson&#8217;s office whether the resolution would be withdrawn and got this response:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity like ACORN receiving federal tax dollars should be praised.\u00a0 However, if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Senator Landrieu\u2019s office \u2013 that is not something I condone.\u00a0 Citizens have an important role in helping to expose waste and\/or fraud when their tax dollars are being spent, but it must be done in a lawful manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Still unclear &#8212; whether the resolution (which had next to no chance of passing) will be withdrawn.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, freshman Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) introduced a resolution honoring James O&#8217;Keefe and Hannah Giles for their ACORN sting. Thirty-one Republicans co-sponsored the resolution. Tonight, I asked Olson&#8217;s office whether the resolution would be withdrawn and got this response: Individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity like ACORN receiving federal tax dollars [&hellip;]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-232930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232930","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=232930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}