{"id":14578,"date":"2010-04-12T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/christina-jeffrey-republican-for-congress-south-carolina-allow-americans-to-opt-out-of-social-security\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:09:08","slug":"christina-jeffrey-republican-for-congress-south-carolina-allow-americans-to-opt-out-of-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/christina-jeffrey-republican-for-congress-south-carolina-allow-americans-to-opt-out-of-social-security.php","title":{"rendered":"Christina Jeffrey Republican for Congress, South Carolina &#8211; Allow Americans to opt out of Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christina Jeffrey for Congress: Fighting to Take American Back!<\/strong><\/p><p>Christina Jeffrey is running an insurgent libertarian-conservative GOP primary campaign against incumbent \"fiscally moderate, socially authoritarian\" Bobby Ingless.  <\/p><p>She's a self-described \"Army brat\" brought up in a household that was \"Christian, anti-communist, free-enterprise, self-sufficient, loyal Americans.\"<\/p><p>She also notes in her campaign bio:<\/p><blockquote><p>Christina attended Vassar College as a freshman, but transferred to a conservative college in Texas where she could study with an outstanding conservative and libertarian faculty.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>She's a former College Republican, member of Young Americans for Freedom, and a co-organizer of the Boiling Springs Tea Party.  <\/p><p>Further notes on her background:<\/p><blockquote><p>She has worked in the campaigns of conservatives starting with Barry Goldwater. Most recently she was the campaign manager for Dr. Henry Jordan&rsquo;s bid for Lt. Governor in 2006. She has never been a paid political operative, but always volunteers and never asks for expense money. In 2008, she fell 123 votes short of election to the legislature. She supports Mark Sanford&rsquo;s fiscally conservative principles and helped him get elected, just as she did Jim DeMint, and other local conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Jeffrey recently spoke to a gathering of a local GOP precinct committee in Spartenburg.<\/p><p>Jeffrey stated that she agreed with a member of the audience that \"right, first we defund them,\" Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements.<\/p><p>She later describes her plan for Social Security to \"allow people to opt out.  Take their money and let them invest it...\"<\/p><p>Campaign website: <a href=\"http:\/\/christinajeffrey.com\/\">ChristinaJeffrey.com<\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6a4a7_7828681836623105417-8148664912654164989?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Jeffrey for Congress: Fighting to Take American Back!Christina Jeffrey is running an insurgent libertarian-conservative GOP primary campaign against incumbent \"fiscally moderate, socially authoritarian\" Bobby Ingless. She's a self-described \"Army brat\" brought up in a household that was \"Christian, anti-communist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/christina-jeffrey-republican-for-congress-south-carolina-allow-americans-to-opt-out-of-social-security.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}