{"id":706628,"date":"2010-04-01T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81167"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:51:44","slug":"former-rnc-chairs-launch-new-political-action-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706628","title":{"rendered":"Former RNC Chairs Launch New Political Action Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen months after being tossed aside for Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2010\/03\/31\/former-gop-officials-launch-political-group\/\">at the helm<\/a> of American Crossroads, a group aiming to raise $52 million &#8220;from corporations and wealthy conservatives&#8221; to win the 2010 elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new American Crossroads organization will be run by former RNC Chairman <strong>Mike Duncan<\/strong> and <strong>Joanne Davidson<\/strong>, a onetime RNC co-chair. Former RNC Chairman <strong>Ed Gillespie <\/strong>and former White House adviser <strong>Karl Rove <\/strong>are informally advising the organization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not entirely different from what happened in 2005 and 2006, when critics of Howard Dean within the Democratic Party formed their own efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen months after being tossed aside for Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is at the helm of American Crossroads, a group aiming to raise $52 million &#8220;from corporations and wealthy conservatives&#8221; to win the 2010 elections. The new American Crossroads organization will be run by former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and Joanne Davidson, [&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-706628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XPe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706628","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=706628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}