{"id":687671,"date":"2010-03-10T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78901"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:37:48","slug":"video-michele-bachmann-kicks-off-%e2%80%98take-the-town-halls-to-dc%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98now-is-the-time-to-see-the-whites-of-their-eyes%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687671","title":{"rendered":"Video: Michele Bachmann Kicks off \u2018Take the Town Halls to DC\u2019: \u2018Now is the Time to See the Whites of Their Eyes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Take the Town Halls to DC&#8221; coalition has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CeMDwVjXfCY\">put up video<\/a> of its kick-off last night, with the Memphis Tea Party&#8217;s Mark Skoda introducing a speech by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) by casting the effort as a low-key lobbying push.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our objective, here, is really to have a conversation with our representatives,&#8221; said Skoda. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about placards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bachmann took it a little further. &#8220;We the people are going to roll them out,&#8221; said Bachmann, &#8220;and when we roll them out we&#8217;re going to roll this bill back.&#8221; Activists needed to get into their representatives&#8217; faces: &#8220;Now is the time to see the whites of their eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-78901\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CeMDwVjXfCY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LRcJuOWeURk\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Take the Town Halls to DC&#8221; coalition has put up video of its kick-off last night, with the Memphis Tea Party&#8217;s Mark Skoda introducing a speech by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) by casting the effort as a low-key lobbying push. &#8220;Our objective, here, is really to have a conversation with our representatives,&#8221; said Skoda. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2STt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}