{"id":501501,"date":"2010-04-01T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/04\/01\/former-gop-officials-launch-political-group\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:41:58","slug":"former-gop-officials-launch-political-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/501501","title":{"rendered":"Former GOP Officials Launch Political Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/ZqJBe9V5koY\/former_gop_officials_launch_political_group.html\" >Former GOP Officials Launch Political Group             <\/a><br \/>As troubles at the RNC mount, the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2010\/03\/31\/former-gop-officials-launch-political-group\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports &#8220;a group of former Republican officials are starting an outside political group that could compete with the RNC for wealthy donors and prominence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The group, American Crossroads, hopes to raise $52 million from wealthy Republicans and corporations, according to officials involved with the organization. The goal is to mount an independent campaign to help Republican candidates win in the November elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The new group &#8220;will be run by former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and Joanne Davidson, a onetime RNC co-chair. Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and former White House adviser Karl Rove are informally advising the organization.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/ZqJBe9V5koY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/CSsZE1V8KCI\/paterson_may_not_call_special_election.html\" >Paterson May Not Call Special Election             <\/a><br \/>New York Gov. David Paterson (D) &#8220;is backing away from his earlier pledge to call a special election in the state&#8217;s 29th Congressional District as soon as possible,&#8221; <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=75726&amp;provider=gnews\">WGRZ-TV<\/a> reports.   <\/p>\n<p>  The seat was held by former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) who resigned in February.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/CSsZE1V8KCI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former GOP Officials Launch Political Group As troubles at the RNC mount, the Wall Street Journal reports &#8220;a group of former Republican officials are starting an outside political group that could compete with the RNC for wealthy donors and prominence.&#8221; &#8220;The group, American Crossroads, hopes to raise $52 million from wealthy Republicans and corporations, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501501","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}