{"id":7990,"date":"2011-09-28T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2011-09-28T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:50:03","slug":"nc-governor-suggests-suspending-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/09\/28\/nc-governor-suggests-suspending-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Governor Suggests Suspending Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/09\/28\/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections\/\">And she was serious.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Bev Purdue of North Carolina, a Democrat suggested suspending elections for Congress until the country&#8217;s problems are solved. She was dead serious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won\u2019t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,\u201d Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, N.C., according to the Raleigh News &#038; Observer. \u201cI really hope that someone can agree with me on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?height=420&#038;embedCode=IwOGF1MjrieXHTJDfRhGHU7qyK86OEJ6&#038;width=520&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=IwOGF1MjrieXHTJDfRhGHU7qyK86OEJ6&#038;video_pcode=k4Nmw6Cri746xA2OsoSlngyrIudg\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And she was serious. Governor Bev Purdue of North Carolina, a Democrat suggested suspending elections for Congress until the country&#8217;s problems are solved. She was dead serious&#8230; \u201cI think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won\u2019t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","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=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}