{"id":2309,"date":"2004-08-11T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2309.html"},"modified":"2004-08-11T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T16:18:07","slug":"carpetbagger-endorsement-new-jerseys-nathan-rudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/carpetbagger-endorsement-new-jerseys-nathan-rudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpetbagger endorsement &#8212; New Jersey&#8217;s Nathan Rudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my more <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_08_08_atrios_archive.html#109222920740383861\">widely<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\">read<\/a> colleagues endorse favorite candidates with some regularity, so I thought I&#8217;d get in on the fun and let readers know about a friend of mine, Nathan Rudy, who&#8217;s running for Freeholder in Somerset County, NJ. <\/p>\n<p>(In New Jersey, a &#8220;Freeholder&#8221; is a county commissioner and is responsible for human services. county roads, parks and bridges, and setting the budget for the county jail, prosecutor, courts and surrogate. I know, they should probably change the name, but that&#8217;s not important right now.)<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Nathan&#8217;s a great, brilliant guy who is well qualified for the post. Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rudyforfreeholder.org\/\">swing by his website<\/a> and tell him Carpetbagger sent you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my more widely read colleagues endorse favorite candidates with some regularity, so I thought I&#8217;d get in on the fun and let readers know about a friend of mine, Nathan Rudy, who&#8217;s running for Freeholder in Somerset County, NJ. (In New Jersey, a &#8220;Freeholder&#8221; is a county commissioner and is responsible for human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}