{"id":1238,"date":"2011-10-30T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2011-10-30T01:58:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:58:52","slug":"position-papers-italy-nicaragua-nra-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"position papers, Italy, Nicaragua, ‘NRA Speak’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the week…<\/em>\u00a0 I’ve been cloistered in “campaign headquarters”\u00a0 working on position papers for our stances on foreign policy, and on gun rights.\u00a0 That’s what happens when you don’t have much of a staff, you actually end up writing these things yourself…\u00a0 A good-size story appeared about our campaign this week in a big Italian newspaper called Riformista<\/em>.\u00a0 That’s right, while the other candidates have stories splashed all over American newspapers, we’ve opted to go the Italian route.\u00a0 (Call it a hunch.)\u00a0 I also recently gave a talk to a Nicaraguan high school, via the virtual magic of Skype.\u00a0 My wife, and ‘almost First Lady’ Liz, who is always the optimist, said:\u00a0 “Maybe the people in Italy and Nicaragua have friends in America they can talk to.” Note:\u00a0<\/strong> In our position paper on guns, I note that more than 100,000 people in American are either killed or injured by guns every year now.\u00a0 The U.S, in effect, is turning into a veritable war zone.\u00a0 With the ‘front lines’ being our major cities.\u00a0 And to address this situation merely with ‘NRA Speak’ sound bytes and hubris, as opposed to squarely looking at the tremendously complex dimensions to gun violence in America, well,\u00a0 “…misses the mark (sorry).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the week…\u00a0 I’ve been cloistered in “campaign headquarters”\u00a0 working on position papers for our stances on foreign policy, and on gun rights.\u00a0 That’s what happens when you don’t have much of a staff, you actually end up …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","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=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}