{"id":534,"date":"2008-02-08T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/08\/is-sen-demint-running-for-berkeley-city-council\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:42:27","slug":"is-sen-demint-running-for-berkeley-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/08\/is-sen-demint-running-for-berkeley-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sen. DeMint running for Berkeley City Council?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a regular e-mail to his constituents, Sen. DeMint seems to be running out of dogs to whip. The Senator &#8211; who bills himself as &#8220;your conservative voice in the Senate&#8221; &#8211; introduced legislation to take $2 million in federal funding from the city of Berkeley, California, because the City Council voted for a resolution telling the Marines that its recruiting office isn&#8217;t welcome in Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>DeMint quoted council members as accusing the Marines to be &#8220;trained killers,&#8221; with a history of &#8220;death and destruction&#8221; who recruit young people with &#8220;false promises of regarding jobs, job training, education and other benefits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeMint, never one to let the truth interfere with a good pander, posted this YouTube link in his newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dCXqYvJ0DaA&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dCXqYvJ0DaA&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a regular e-mail to his constituents, Sen. DeMint seems to be running out of dogs to whip. The Senator &#8211; who bills himself as &#8220;your conservative voice in the Senate&#8221; &#8211; introduced legislation to take $2 million in federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/08\/is-sen-demint-running-for-berkeley-city-council\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}