{"id":416751,"date":"2010-03-11T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79029"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:47:21","slug":"larry-sinclair-on-the-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416751","title":{"rendered":"Larry Sinclair on the Campaign Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a strange sort of fame<\/a> in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was refusing to become a prop<\/a> in one of Orly Taitz’s lawsuits — and he was mounting a bid for Congress in his new district, Florida-24.<\/p>\n

One of Sinclair’s longtime fans, the mysterious “Citizen Wells,” has uploaded video of Sinclair introducing himself at a meet-the-candidates forum. It’s … fairly awkward. Sinclair spends much of his time warning the crowd that there’s something shady about him. “I’ve served my time,” he says. “I’ve accepted responsibility for what I’ve done.” And after some vague promises about staying closer to the district if elected, he notes that he’s “probably going to be the most vetted candidate in this entire race.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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In happier times, Sinclair was airing his allegations (which are re-aired by the Globe tabloid every few months) on a Puerto Rican talk show co-hosted by a puppet.<\/p>\n

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The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a strange sort of fame in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was refusing to become a prop in one of Orly Taitz’s lawsuits — and he was mounting a bid for Congress in his new district, Florida-24. One […]<\/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-416751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416751","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=416751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}