{"id":30454,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/justin-amash-wins-in-michigan-other-mi-gop-wins-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","slug":"justin-amash-wins-in-michigan-other-mi-gop-wins-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/justin-amash-wins-in-michigan-other-mi-gop-wins-for-congress.php","title":{"rendered":"Justin Amash wins in Michigan; Other MI GOP wins for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNISUgZVbLI\/AAAAAAAAOQk\/FqZbCezbgrI\/s1600\/JustinAmash3.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_JustinAmash3.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Democrats tried to paint Justin Amash as a dangerous Tea Partyer who wanted to privatize Social Security and abolish Medicare.  Amash is a libertarian Republican, friend of former libertarian Republican State Rep. Leon Drolet, and a longtime member of the Republican Liberty Caucus.  <\/p><p>He won 59.7% to 37.5% over Democrat Pat Miles.  <\/p><p>In other Michigan races, in a re-match former Congressman Tim Wahlberg who lost in the Obama Wave of 2008, regained his Kalamazoo-area seat.  He beat incumbent Democrat Mark Shauer 54% to 45%.  Wahlberg is a social conservatives and a hero to the pro-life movement.  But he's also a strong economic libertarian and Constitutionalist.  <\/p><p>Finally, another race of interest to libertarian Republicans, Dr. Dan Benishek won in Michigan's 1st District with 52% to 42%.  Benishek is a surgeon.  This was his first time running for political office.  In Upper Michigan he became a folk hero of sorts for blasting fmr. Rep. Bart Stupak and leading a Tea Party revolt against ObamaCare.<\/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_7828681836623105417-5403198278771054714?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Democrats tried to paint Justin Amash as a dangerous Tea Partyer who wanted to privatize Social Security and abolish Medicare. Amash is a libertarian Republican, friend of former libertarian Republican State Rep. Leon Drolet, and a longtime member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/justin-amash-wins-in-michigan-other-mi-gop-wins-for-congress.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-30454","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\/30454"}],"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=30454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}