{"id":689625,"date":"2010-03-12T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79082"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:56:56","slug":"steve-king-wants-you-to-take-the-town-halls-to-washington-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689625","title":{"rendered":"Steve King Wants You to Take the Town Halls to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) records a promotional video for the &#8220;Take the Town Halls to DC&#8221; campaign, promising activists some more results for this bout of lobbying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These members of Congress cannot reject you if you come here and look them in eye,&#8221; says King.<span id=\"more-79082\"><\/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\/00d9G4s0wiw\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>To some extent, this round of activism is kabuki for the cameras &#8212; all of the action is inside the Democratic caucus as wavering members are convinced to vote for the Senate bill. The &#8220;town hall&#8221; theme is meant to remind members what they&#8217;ll face when they come to their districts, but if those raucous responses came as surprises last year, they&#8217;re pretty rote now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) records a promotional video for the &#8220;Take the Town Halls to DC&#8221; campaign, promising activists some more results for this bout of lobbying. &#8220;These members of Congress cannot reject you if you come here and look them in eye,&#8221; says King. To some extent, this round of activism is kabuki for [&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-689625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ToZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689625","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=689625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}