{"id":3080,"date":"2004-11-24T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3080.html"},"modified":"2004-11-24T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T15:59:20","slug":"look-out-chicago-alan-keyes-isnt-leaving-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/look-out-chicago-alan-keyes-isnt-leaving-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out Chicago, Alan Keyes isn&#8217;t leaving anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people move to an area and then consider running for public office there. Alan Keyes is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-keyes23.html\">doing it backwards<\/a> &#8212; running in Illinois, <i>then<\/i> moving there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look out, Illinois Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>Alan Keyes is making good on his pledge to stay here, securing a downtown condominium and working to move two of his conservative organizations to Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of an effort to push the state&#8217;s moderate Republican Party farther to the right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a great idea. The state GOP was so enamored with Keyes during the election season that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/specials\/elections\/chi-0410210246oct21,1,7836699.story\">left him out of its campaign literature<\/a>. Now he&#8217;ll be there full time to insist to Republican officials that the way to win votes in the region&#8217;s most solidly Democratic state is to become rabidly right wing. Good luck with that, Al.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this little tidbit jumped out at me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keyes will maintain his home in Maryland, where one of his sons is still in high school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This strikes me as an example of the kind of anti-family principles that Keyes usually rants <i>against<\/i>. If a son is in high school in Maryland, shouldn&#8217;t his father avoid moving to Illinois at the same time? Isn&#8217;t this the kind of family arrangement that Keyes believes is destroying western civilization?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people move to an area and then consider running for public office there. Alan Keyes is doing it backwards &#8212; running in Illinois, then moving there. Look out, Illinois Republicans. Alan Keyes is making good on his pledge to stay here, securing a downtown condominium and working to move two of his conservative organizations [&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-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}