{"id":2507,"date":"2011-09-12T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2023-12-20T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T00:38:52","slug":"gops-gun-raffle-in-giffords-district-sparks-hot-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/09\/12\/gops-gun-raffle-in-giffords-district-sparks-hot-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Gun Raffle In Giffords&#8217; District Sparks Hot Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often say that the modern Republicans are being led by cruel idiots. I get called out a lot on that. I am not saying every Republican voter is a bigot or a moron. That said, they sure do elect a lot of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case in point per the poor leadership argument. The Pima County, AZ GOP is raffling off a gun. They&#8217;ve had the gun for awhile, even tried to raffle it off before but no one picked it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So they are&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2011\/09\/02\/140139879\/gops-gun-raffle-in-giffords-district-sparks-hot-debate?sc=fb&amp;cc=fp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trying it again<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No big deal. Folks have raffles for stuff all the time. Plus, these kinds of folks think it is great to bring weapons into the house of God, a place to worship their so-called Prince of Peace. Not Piece. Peace. Anyways&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problem is, Pima County is where Representative Gabrielle Giffords has her Congressional seat. You know, the elected official some jackhole tried to assassinate last year. By using a Glock. A Glock, incidentally, is the type of pistol being auctioned by the Pima County GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s tasteless to try to profit from this. End of story. Someone can donate a howitzer for all I care but not this. Then again, these folks like money more than they do people. Or respect. Or decency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you wonder why I won&#8217;t vote for them. You know, aside from them wanting to deport me solely based on my genetic makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often say that the modern Republicans are being led by cruel idiots. I get called out a lot on that. I am not saying every Republican voter is a bigot or a moron. That said, they sure do elect a lot of &#8217;em. Case in point per the poor leadership argument. The Pima County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments-and-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}