{"id":376041,"date":"2010-03-01T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77924"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:08:17","slug":"ralph-reed-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376041","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Reed for Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His political career looked dead after his humiliating 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia &#8212; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/19\/us\/19georgia.html\">lost the primary<\/a> by 14 points, dogged by his ties to Jack Abramoff &#8212; but David Brody has Ralph Reed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cbn.com\/thebrodyfile\/archive\/2010\/03\/01\/source-ralph-reed-seriously-considering-run-for-congress.aspx\">mulling a run<\/a> for Congress in a safe Republican seat.<span id=\"more-77924\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sources close to Ralph Reed tell The Brody File that the former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition is \u201cseriously\u201d considering running for Congress in Georgia.\u00a0 According to one well-placed source, Reed has talked to key grassroots leaders and local elected officials in Gwinnett county and other parts of the district, but has not made a decision yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Brody points out, Reed dived back into political activism last year with the Faith and Freedom Coalition &#8212; an organization I haven&#8217;t yet seen making a huge impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His political career looked dead after his humiliating 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia &#8212; he lost the primary by 14 points, dogged by his ties to Jack Abramoff &#8212; but David Brody has Ralph Reed mulling a run for Congress in a safe Republican seat. Sources close to Ralph Reed tell The Brody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376041","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=376041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}