{"id":392451,"date":"2010-03-05T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78477"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:13:55","slug":"mccain-team-backs-independent-candidate-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392451","title":{"rendered":"McCain Team Backs Independent Candidate in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Weaver and John Yob, two strategists for John McCain&#8217;s 2008 bid, are <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com.nyud.net\/news\/politics\/view\/20100305tim_cahill_hires_john_mccain_big_gun_governor_hopeful_taps_gop_heavyweights\/srvc=home&amp;position=also\">joining up<\/a> with Democratic consultant Tad Devine to work for Tim Cahill, Massachusetts&#8217; credible independent candidate for governor. Also signing on: Jordan Gehrke, a younger strategist who worked for both McCain and Scott Brown, albeit in the final stretch of the latter campaign. Weaver profiles the message against GOP gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Baker:<span id=\"more-78477\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Weaver said he broke GOP ranks because, \u201cAn elitist like Baker can\u2019t (relate to voters). He\u2019s a big-spending liberal Republican at a time when that clearly is out of vogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The early strategy will be to pulverize Baker&#8217;s reputation with conservative voters inside and outside of the Bay State. Baker&#8217;s running mate is pro-choice, while Cahill&#8217;s is pro-life &#8212; and while pro-life voters went for the nominally pro-choice Scott Brown, the thinking is that, post-Brown, with embattled Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) leading the race, they shouldn&#8217;t have to settle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Weaver and John Yob, two strategists for John McCain&#8217;s 2008 bid, are joining up with Democratic consultant Tad Devine to work for Tim Cahill, Massachusetts&#8217; credible independent candidate for governor. Also signing on: Jordan Gehrke, a younger strategist who worked for both McCain and Scott Brown, albeit in the final stretch of the latter [&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-392451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392451","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=392451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}