{"id":11676,"date":"2015-07-17T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:43:47","slug":"clown-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676","title":{"rendered":"Clown candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2015\/07\/17\/george-pataki-presidential-fundraising-campaign\/30278651\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nobody gives a crap about George Pataki<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgepataki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pataki\u2019s<\/a> campaign raised only $255,795 through June 30, a paltry amount compared to the frontrunners who will be among the 10 leading candidates appearing in the first Republican presidential debate Aug. 6 in Cleveland.\u00a0 His filing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Election Commission<\/a> doesn\u2019t indicate he has any paid campaign staff.\u00a0 And he was renting only two campaign offices in Manhattan and Manchester, N.H. &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnDingell\" target=\"_blank\">Congressman John Dingel<\/a> delivers <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2015\/07\/16\/dying-ex-rep-johndingell-wins-bipartisan-praise-for-this-perfect-trump-burn\/\" target=\"_blank\">this epic putdown<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">The Donald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> Delete your account.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Dingell (@JohnDingell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnDingell\/status\/621786765070831616\">July 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I expect Pataki will drop out first, while The Donald will hold on until sometime next year as his money and mouth will keep him going until the early primaries at least.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11676&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsflash: Nobody gives a crap about George Pataki: &#8220;&#8230; Pataki\u2019s campaign raised only $255,795 through June 30, a paltry amount compared to the frontrunners who will be among the 10 leading candidates appearing in the first Republican presidential debate Aug. 6 in Cleveland.\u00a0 His filing with the Federal Election Commission doesn\u2019t indicate he has any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11676&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11676\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11680,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions\/11680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}