{"id":1096,"date":"2010-09-30T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-09-30T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:35:00","slug":"somewhat-of-a-long-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"…somewhat of a long shot."},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked at length with Randy Law, who is a former Republican Ohio Congressman from the district around Youngstown, Ohio. \u00a0 He told me that while he is quite conservative and “tremendously pro-business,” he joined with environmental groups (and other groups) to fight for tighter environmental restrictions in regard to an area landfill that sits above an underground water source. \u00a0 \u00a0Mr. Law \u00a0said that while a lot of factions told him his legislation would be almost impossible to pass, he was a “freshman representative” who was just idealistic enough to think he could win. \u00a0 And with a lot of energy, effort — “and luck” \u00a0— he won. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Mr. Law has a reputation of fighting the odds. \u00a0 He was the first Republican representative from this district… in the last 40<\/em> \u00a0 years. \u00a0 I said the thing about the odds \u00a0was good to hear because, well, we’re somewhat of a long shot as well. \u00a0 Given his track record, \u00a0Mr. Law \u00a0replied that anything is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked at length with Randy Law, who is a former Republican Ohio Congressman from the district around Youngstown, Ohio. \u00a0 He told me that while he is quite conservative and “tremendously pro-business,” he joined with environmental groups (and other …<\/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-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","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=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}