{"id":24174,"date":"2010-07-09T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/heavy-randian-influence-on-a-soon-to-be-united-states-senator\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T08:08:43","slug":"heavy-randian-influence-on-a-soon-to-be-united-states-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/heavy-randian-influence-on-a-soon-to-be-united-states-senator.php","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Randian influence on a soon-to-be United States Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TDU7VnV5vxI\/AAAAAAAAMKE\/PXPAN-zYxkM\/s1600\/MikeLeeUT.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\/b368d_MikeLeeUT.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>And we're not talking Rand Paul<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Mike Lee is poised to be the next US Senator from the State of Utah.  His election is now virtually secured, having won the GOP primary run-off.  <\/p><p>Lee is firmly affiliated with the Tea Party, and has often referred to himself as a Constitutionalist.  Now, we have firm evidence that at least among his staffers, there's a heavy Ayn Rand influence, as well.<\/p><p>From the SLC Tribune, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/home\/49867289-76\/lee-county-utah-campaign.html.csp\">Utah News<\/a>, July 5 \"Rolly: Mike Lee and the big tent theory\":<\/p><blockquote><p>When Curtis Mortensen, of Kaysville, tried to contact Lee to get a better idea of how he plans to represent Utah in the Senate, he had a good discussion with a campaign staffer who said Lee followed the personal-responsibility philosophy of author Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, a legend among conservative, small-government advocates, whose followers also include former Fed chief Alan Greenspan.<\/p><p>Lee&rsquo;s campaign manager, McKay Christensen, has listed Rand&rsquo;s books as among his favorites.<\/p><p>So this shows flexibility in the campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote><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\/b368d_7828681836623105417-843809209362040204?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we're not talking Rand PaulFrom Eric Dondero:Mike Lee is poised to be the next US Senator from the State of Utah. His election is now virtually secured, having won the GOP primary run-off. Lee is firmly affiliated with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/heavy-randian-influence-on-a-soon-to-be-united-states-senator.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-24174","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\/24174"}],"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=24174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}