{"id":30453,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/two-heartbreaking-losses-in-arizona-for-tea-partylibertarian-republicans\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","slug":"two-heartbreaking-losses-in-arizona-for-tea-partylibertarian-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/two-heartbreaking-losses-in-arizona-for-tea-partylibertarian-republicans.php","title":{"rendered":"Two heartbreaking losses in Arizona for Tea Party\/libertarian Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNIQbzTEcYI\/AAAAAAAAOQc\/miEAbpbHuYA\/s1600\/Ruth-McCLung.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\/51b04_Ruth-McCLung.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Two other seats GOP pick-ups<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Ruth McClung lost to incumbent Democrat Raul Grijalva, 48% to 45%.  McClung a spritely, inspiring young Republican and Tea Partyer, ran a David versus Goliath type race.  She became a sweetheart of the Right blogosphere when polls began to show her within striking distance.  <\/p><p>Grijalva is best known for having alled for a boycott of Arizona over Jan Brewer's anti-illegal immigration stance.  <\/p><p>Also in southern Arizona Iraq War Veteran Jesse Kelly lost to incumbent Democrat Gabrielle Gifford 48.6% to 47.6%.  <\/p><p>Though, Arizona Republicans picked up three other Democrat seats further north, fiscal conservative Dave Schwiekert in a re-match over Democrat Harry Mitchell 53% to 42%, and Paul Gosar over Ann Kirkpatrick 49% to 43%.  <\/p><p>Additionally of note, Dan Quayle's son Ben Quayle won the 3rd CD 52% to 42%, already held by Republicans.  Quayle had beaten a number of more Tea Party\/libertarian-oriented Republicans in the primary.<\/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\/51b04_7828681836623105417-5447209643235854792?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two other seats GOP pick-upsFrom Eric Dondero:Ruth McClung lost to incumbent Democrat Raul Grijalva, 48% to 45%. McClung a spritely, inspiring young Republican and Tea Partyer, ran a David versus Goliath type race. She became a sweetheart of the Right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/two-heartbreaking-losses-in-arizona-for-tea-partylibertarian-republicans.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-30453","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\/30453"}],"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=30453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}