{"id":21087,"date":"2010-06-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/iowa-gops-move-to-center-with-branstad-may-benefit-libertarian-party\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:59:00","slug":"iowa-gops-move-to-center-with-branstad-may-benefit-libertarian-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/iowa-gops-move-to-center-with-branstad-may-benefit-libertarian-party.php","title":{"rendered":"Iowa GOP&#8217;s move to center with Branstad may benefit Libertarian Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TBYcB_lNawI\/AAAAAAAAL0w\/s3-2364aKwM\/s1600\/IowaCornfield.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\/61dab_IowaCornfield.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>The Iowa Republican Party recently nominated former longtime Governor Terry Branstad, a thoroughly uninspiring choice.  As a result, the Libertarian Party may now be poised to pick off a more substantial margin from the anti-tax, anti-incumbent Right.  <\/p><p>From LP press release via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowapolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=199513\">IowaPolitics.com<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Eric Cooper, the Libertarian Candidate for Governor of Iowa, said today that Terry Branstad&rsquo;s win in the Republican primary is great news for the Libertarian Party. Cooper is attempting to get 2% in the Iowa Governor&rsquo;s race in order to get major party status in Iowa for the Libertarian Party. <\/p><p>&ldquo;There is a strong anti-incumbent sentiment in America at present, and with Terry Branstad&rsquo;s win in the Republican primary, it means that we will essentially be running against two incumbents in the general election,&rdquo; says Cooper. <\/p><p>Cooper, 44, (the Libertarian candidate for Governor) is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Iowa State University, and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Iowa.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Cooper is running a Tea Party style campaign.  His platform includes repealing the minumum wage, overturning bans on smoking, repealing cigarette taxes, and allowing fireworks sales.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coopersmallergovernment.com\/\">Coopersmallergovernment.com<\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7828681836623105417-3224505070333556292?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:The Iowa Republican Party recently nominated former longtime Governor Terry Branstad, a thoroughly uninspiring choice. As a result, the Libertarian Party may now be poised to pick off a more substantial margin from the anti-tax, anti-incumbent Right. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/iowa-gops-move-to-center-with-branstad-may-benefit-libertarian-party.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-21087","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\/21087"}],"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=21087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}