{"id":4680,"date":"2010-08-12T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2010-08-12T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T19:27:16","slug":"erica-payne-keepin-it-classy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/08\/12\/erica-payne-keepin-it-classy\/","title":{"rendered":"Erica Payne Keepin&#8217; it Classy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What the heck is this, Democrat Hate Week?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have written before about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/05\/17\/another-dangerous-player-to-watch\/\">Erica Payne&#8217;s Agenda Project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now she is selling merchandise for her group&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/fucktea.com\/\">&#8220;F*CK TEA&#8221;<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Her website states as the group&#8217;s goal: &#8220;The Agenda Project&#8217;s goal is to build a powerful, intelligent, well-connected political movement capable of identifying and advancing rational, effective ideas in the public debate and in so doing ensure our country&#8217;s enduring success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If their new <a href=\"http:\/\/fucktea.com\/\">&#8220;F*CK TEA&#8221;<\/a> campaign is about as intelligent and rational as they can come up with, we don&#8217;t have too much to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Payne is a veteran consultant to progressive groups  and is co-founder of the Democracy Alliance, the low-profile group of liberal mega-donors who helped build the Center for American Progress and other new organizations that grew in the Bush years. <\/p>\n<p>Around here we call that &#8216;astroturf&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>How about that &#8220;Professor&#8221; Linda Fowler?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck is this, Democrat Hate Week? We have written before about Erica Payne&#8217;s Agenda Project. Now she is selling merchandise for her group&#8217;s new &#8220;F*CK TEA&#8221; campaign. Her website states as the group&#8217;s goal: &#8220;The Agenda Project&#8217;s goal is to build a powerful, intelligent, well-connected political movement capable of identifying and advancing rational, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}