{"id":808,"date":"2003-10-29T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/808.html"},"modified":"2003-10-29T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:54:23","slug":"cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t we all just get along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about that Dean-Gephardt ticket in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-dean-gephardt,0,7657791.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines\">AP reported<\/a> today that &#8220;an angry confrontation&#8221; took place in Iowa yesterday between Dean and Gephardt staffers, leading a Dean staffer to be escorted from the permises.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Gephardt was giving a speech at a senior center in Des Moines. A Dean staffer went to the event, for reasons that are unclear, and got into an &#8220;altercation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both sides are naturally blaming the other.<\/p>\n<p>Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi has asked the Gephardt campaign to fire the staff member responsible for the incident. Erik Smith, spokesman for the Gephardt campaign, responded that Dean&#8217;s staffer was &#8220;belligerent and we escorted him out.&#8221; Smith also accused the Dean camp of relying on political dirty tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, it&#8217;s only October. I shudder to think how these guys will be acting in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about that Dean-Gephardt ticket in 2004. The AP reported today that &#8220;an angry confrontation&#8221; took place in Iowa yesterday between Dean and Gephardt staffers, leading a Dean staffer to be escorted from the permises. Apparently, Gephardt was giving a speech at a senior center in Des Moines. A Dean staffer went to the event, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}