{"id":2138,"date":"2009-09-18T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-09-18T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:06:03","slug":"we_rabble_are_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"We Rabble Are Absolutely<\/u> At The Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI’ve known Matt Burden – Blackfive, of www.blackfive.net, one of the original milblogs – pretty much since I’ve started blogging. <\/p>\n

He’s a vet, and a tech guy, and a dad – and someone who’s always stuck me as smart, honest, energetic, and most of all, practical.<\/p>\n

So even though our politics don’t exactly line up (remember, he’s a Republican and I’m the Armed Liberal<\/u><\/b>), I was thrilled when he told me that he was thinking about running for office. I may have even made encouraging noises – possibly loud encouraging noises.<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise to discover this post<\/a> at Blackfive. The crazy SOB is doing it. He’s running for the Illinois State Legislature.<\/p>\n

And I think he can win. And more, that he should.<\/p>\n

To do that, he needs your help. He needs 10,000 people (specifically, 10,000 U.S. citizens) to go to his campaign site give him at least $10<\/a>. I’m in for $100. Step up, step up – and do the right thing.<\/p>\n

Because I have this wildly optimistic idea that a whole new cohort of people are about to enter politics. People who are smart, honest, energetic, and most of all, practical. I’m hopeful that a decent number of them will be Democrats. But you know what? I’ll support them when I see them, because I’m about being in the Party of the Practical. And I’ll ask you – as strongly as I know how – to do the same thing. <\/p>\n

Because my sons’ Republic depends on it.
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy Cow! Chicago native Matt Burden – Blackfive – is running for office. Armed Liberal is happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}