{"id":11421,"date":"2007-07-12T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11421.html"},"modified":"2007-07-12T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:00:40","slug":"thursdays-political-round-up-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/thursdays-political-round-up-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday’s political round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n

* The International Association of Fire Fighters unveiled their video<\/a> yesterday about Rudy Giuliani, called “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend,” which hammers the former NYC mayor’s handling of the crisis on 9\/11. It’s online and worth watching. (The video cost about $70,000 to produce and was paid for from PAC money, not union dues.)<\/p>\n

* Speaking of Giuliani, his presidential campaign utilized a large security team in the first quarter, though he neglected to report any security expenses. The Boston Globe explains<\/a> the disclosure problem and why it looks like this was an illegal in-kind contribution from Giuliani Partners.<\/p>\n

* MoveOn.org members backed John Edwards<\/a> in a climate change straw poll, which asked participants which candidate would be strongest on combatting global warming. Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama were all practically tied for second.<\/p>\n

* The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported<\/a> that the executive committee of the state GOP approved moving its precinct caucuses from March 4 to Feb. 5, “plunging the party into the maelstrom of a de facto national presidential primary.” Minnesota Dems (DFL) is expected to approve the same date shift soon.<\/p>\n

* Though John McCain has not actually dropped out of the presidential race, recent events have led observers to start wondering how his departure would affect the campaign. Mark Blumenthal crunched the poll numbers<\/a> and found that Giuliani would likely get the bulk of McCain’s current supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * The International Association of Fire Fighters unveiled their video yesterday about Rudy Giuliani, called “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend,” which hammers the former NYC mayor’s handling of the crisis on 9\/11. It’s online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}