{"id":17247,"date":"2010-05-10T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/emmer-mania-libertarian-conservative-ticket-pulls-ahead-in-minnesota-govs-race\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:09:12","slug":"emmer-mania-libertarian-conservative-ticket-pulls-ahead-in-minnesota-govs-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/emmer-mania-libertarian-conservative-ticket-pulls-ahead-in-minnesota-govs-race.php","title":{"rendered":"Emmer-Mania! Libertarian-Conservative ticket pulls ahead in Minnesota Gov&#8217;s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S-V9LtDjICI\/AAAAAAAALRI\/xddt-jPnGtM\/s1600\/TomEmmerWife.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ef57_TomEmmerWife.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>We were one of the very first national political blogs to talk up the candidacy of libertarian-leaning conservative Tom Emmer for Governor.  Emmer caught our eye early on as a uniquely hardline constitutionalist conservative, with some definite libertarian instincts.  This won him the endorsement of fellow constitutionalist and libertarian-leaner Sarah Palin two weeks ago.  <\/p><p>A week later he picked a movement free marketeer who has attended explicitly libertarian conferences such as the Sam Adams Alliance and Americans for Limited Government, as his running mate Annette Meeks.  <\/p><p>Now, he appears to be in increasingly good shape to win the Minnesota Governorship. <\/p><p>From Survey USA (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgehogreport.com\/\">Hedgehog<\/a>): <\/p><blockquote><p>Tom Emmer (R) 41%<br>Margaret Kelliher (D) 33%<br>Tom Horner (I) 9%<\/p><p>Tom Emmer (R) 42%<br>Mark Dayton (D) 34%<br>Tom Horner (I) 9%<\/p><p>Tom Emmer (R) 42%<br>Matt Entenza (D) 31%<br>Tom Horner (I) 10%<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The Left absolutely despises Emmer, and they hate Meeks even more.  They (<a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2010\/04\/tom-emmer-manages-to-find-a-running-mate-as-crazy-as-he-is\/\">MN Publius<\/a>) have called Emmer the \"extreme right candidate,\"from the \"Tea Party wing,\" and Meeks even \"further right.\"  How fitting that the same State that gave us ultra-Leftist looney tune Al Franken, may soon be governed from the Hard Libertarian Right.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmerforgovernor.com\/\">EmmerforGovernor.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\/4ef57_7828681836623105417-4945308988516710263?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:We were one of the very first national political blogs to talk up the candidacy of libertarian-leaning conservative Tom Emmer for Governor. Emmer caught our eye early on as a uniquely hardline constitutionalist conservative, with some definite libertarian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/emmer-mania-libertarian-conservative-ticket-pulls-ahead-in-minnesota-govs-race.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-17247","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\/17247"}],"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=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}