{"id":375855,"date":"2010-03-01T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69842"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:30:25","slug":"blanche-lincoln-responds-to-primary-challenge-by-calling-liberals-%e2%80%9cextremists%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375855","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln Responds to Primary Challenge by Calling Liberals \u201cExtremists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s Blanche Lincoln’s response to the great news that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter of Arkansas is going to challenge her in the primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know that I am the target of both political extremes<\/strong> but that\u2019s what makes this campaign so important to all of us. This Senate seat belongs to Arkansas, not to outside groups that are angry I don\u2019t answer to them.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just so we’re clear: Bill Halter is a fourth-generation Arkansan, who grew up in North Little Rock, played high school football for Little Rock Catholic, is a trustee emeritus of Stanford University, and served in the Clinton administration’s OMB before serving as the state’s Lieutenant Governor. There’s nothing even a little bit “outside” or “extreme” about him.<\/p>\n

But smearing Democratic activists is just what Blanche does.<\/a> It’s who she is.<\/p>\n

As I pointed out in January, do we really need a Democratic Senator who uses the word “liberal” as a pejorative?<\/p>\n

Donate to Halter’s campaign here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tags: Bill Halter<\/a>, Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, DINOs<\/a>, DLC<\/a>, Senate<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s Blanche Lincoln’s response to the great news that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter of Arkansas is going to challenge her in the primary. \u201cI know that I am the target of both political extremes but that\u2019s what makes this campaign so important to all of us. This Senate seat belongs to Arkansas, not to outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375855","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}