{"id":1047,"date":"2010-07-08T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-07-08T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:22:14","slug":"congressional-hopeful-and-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"congressional hopeful, and immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met with Ken “wasko” Waskiewicz, who is running for U.S. Representative in the 4th District of Colorado. \u00a0 He’s running as an independent and has a wife and eight-month-old daughter. \u00a0 He told me having the baby motivated him to make the world a better place. \u00a0Thus the run. \u00a0(We often explain that Liz and I are running as concerned parents from the Midwest.) \u00a0 Ken has been stumping the past several months, going door-to-door in his free time. \u00a0 His father, Ed, has knocked on 3,000 doors himself for his son. \u00a0 Ken is campaigning on a platform that includes, among other things: term limits for all in D.C.; stopping wasteful government spending; a flat tax; reducing the National Debt… \u00a0 Ken’s father used to have an immigration consulting business in Alaska and said his belief is immigrants should come here on a three year work visa. \u00a0 At the end of that time, if things went well, the \u00a0person would be eligible for citizenship. \u00a0 \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The other night in Berthod, Colorado, I talked with a Republican who said \u00a0that people who believe in amnesty for illegal immigrants — “… should offer to sponsor one.” \u00a0 [Our campaign believes in amnesty for many who are here because of poverty and political oppression. \u00a0 Helping them seems the essence of the gospel message.] \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 Bumper sticker sighting in Ft. Collins, Colorado: \u00a0 Proud member of the right wing conspiracy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met with Ken “wasko” Waskiewicz, who is running for U.S. Representative in the 4th District of Colorado. \u00a0 He’s running as an independent and has a wife and eight-month-old daughter. \u00a0 He told me having the baby motivated him …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}