{"id":2774,"date":"2012-02-01T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/knowing-your-right-from-left\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:22:06","slug":"knowing-your-right-from-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/knowing-your-right-from-left\/","title":{"rendered":"knowing your right from left"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in Elbert County<\/h2>\n

First of all, forget the labels.\u00a0 Republican, Democrat and Tea Party mean nothing out here.\u00a0 They’re all nominally Republican.<\/p>\n

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On the right you have\u00a0 Limited Government, Personal Responsibility, Protection of Private Property Rights, and Fiscal Responsibility.<\/p>\n

\"Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the left you have New-Plains<\/a> and Elbert-Grab<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Elbert<\/a><\/p>\n

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Candidates promoted on New-Plains: Larry Ross<\/a> * Robert Rowland<\/a> * Steve Valdez<\/a><\/p>\n

Rowland “is running as a Republican” but “does not believe Party should matter at the County level.”\u00a0 Valdez says, “Republican or Democrat-it doesn’t matter.”\u00a0 Ross believes in government regulation and is active in trying to shut down oil and gas development in the county.<\/p>\n

The three have made statements indicating openness to increasing taxes, increasing debt, favoring zoning control of private property and private resources, and growing government.<\/p>\n

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Against these three candidates, real Republicans have opportunities to defend the actual conservative principles enumerated on their Lincoln Day Dinner advertisement above.<\/p>\n

Now would be a good time to start.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…in Elbert County First of all, forget the labels.\u00a0 Republican, Democrat and Tea Party mean nothing out here.\u00a0 They’re all nominally Republican. ————————————————————————————————————————- On the right you have\u00a0 Limited Government, Personal Responsibility, Protection of Private Property Rights, and Fiscal Responsibility. ————————————————————————————————————————- On the left you have New-Plains and Elbert-Grab. ————————————————————————————————————————- Candidates promoted on New-Plains: Larry […]<\/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-2774","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\/2774","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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}