{"id":2047,"date":"2010-05-15T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T01:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/15\/elbert-county-tea-party-speakers\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T02:28:54","slug":"elbert-county-tea-party-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/elbert-county-tea-party-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbert County Tea Party Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5\/15\/10 Frontier HS Gym, Elizabeth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following are mp3 audio files (podcasts).\u00a0 Just right click and download them to your computer or mp3 player.\u00a0 Speeches are presented in the order they were given.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mike_Coffman_EC_Tea_Party.mp3\" title=\"Congressman Mike Coffman\">Congressman Mike Coffman<\/a><\/strong> 25 minutes, 26 megs.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Jane_Norton_EC_Tea_Party.mp3\" title=\"Senate Candidate Jane Norton\">Senate Candidate Jane Norton<\/a><\/strong> 22 minutes, 19 megs.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Greg_Brophy_EC_Tea_Party.mp3\" title=\"State Senator Greg Brophy\">State Senator Greg Brophy<\/a><\/strong> 27 minutes, 27 megs.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lori_and_Scott_McInnis_EC_Tea_Party.mp3\" title=\"Governor Candidate Scott McInnis\">Governor Candidate Scott McInnis<\/a><\/strong> 27 minutes, 27 megs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Candidates in today&#8217;s speeches and Q&amp;A sessions were more substantive by a significant degree than I have seen them heretofore at Elbert County Republican Breakfast forums.\u00a0 This was my third tea party event but my first one in Elbert County.\u00a0 I would not characterize the speeches I&#8217;ve heard at previous tea party events as typically more or less substantive so my experience doesn&#8217;t help explain why candidates seemed to bring their\u00a0 &#8220;A games&#8221; to the tea party meeting today.\u00a0 Perhaps we&#8217;re entering a phase in the political season where candidates are hitting their stride and gaining confidence and strength in presenting their messages.\u00a0 In any event, I appreciate their seemingly tireless efforts to stand up for conservative principles for the benefit of Elbert County citizens.\u00a0 It takes a lot of dedication and desire to stay in the eye of the storm like they do and I hope this rebroadcast helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/15\/10 Frontier HS Gym, Elizabeth The following are mp3 audio files (podcasts).\u00a0 Just right click and download them to your computer or mp3 player.\u00a0 Speeches are presented in the order they were given. Congressman Mike Coffman 25 minutes, 26 megs. Senate Candidate Jane Norton 22 minutes, 19 megs. State Senator Greg Brophy 27 minutes, 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}