{"id":688806,"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.com\/index\/688806","title":{"rendered":"Larry Sinclair on the Campaign Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/more-fun-in-obamaconspiracyvil\">strange sort of fame<\/a> in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/59616\/larry-sinclair-orly-taitz-told-me-to-lie-claim-that-obama-had-people-killed\">refusing to become a prop<\/a> in one of Orly Taitz&#8217;s lawsuits &#8212; and he was mounting a bid for Congress in his new district, Florida-24.<\/p>\n<p>One of Sinclair&#8217;s longtime fans, the mysterious &#8220;Citizen Wells,&#8221; has uploaded video of Sinclair introducing himself at a meet-the-candidates forum. It&#8217;s &#8230; fairly awkward. Sinclair spends much of his time warning the crowd that there&#8217;s something shady about him. &#8220;I&#8217;ve served my time,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;ve accepted responsibility for what I&#8217;ve done.&#8221; And after some vague promises about staying closer to the district if elected, he notes that he&#8217;s &#8220;probably going to be the most vetted candidate in this entire race.&#8221;<span id=\"more-79029\"><\/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\/RnaSBNgij64\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>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<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\/PFG8B0wBIWw\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s lawsuits &#8212; and he was mounting a bid for Congress in his new district, Florida-24. One [&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-688806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TbM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688806","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=688806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}