{"id":30455,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/blue-collar-libertarian-elected-to-michigan-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:41","slug":"blue-collar-libertarian-elected-to-michigan-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/blue-collar-libertarian-elected-to-michigan-senate.php","title":{"rendered":"Blue Collar libertarian elected to Michigan Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNIWO4bV0jI\/AAAAAAAAOQs\/qHJgj4Rtqdk\/s1600\/JackBrandenburg.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_JackBrandenburg.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Jack Brandenburg, a former 3-term State Rep. from St. Clair Shores, easily won election to the State Senate in the 11th District, Macomb County. Back in August, Brandenburg faced a tough GOP primary against two opponents, including fellow libertarian, and his longtime friend fmr. State Rep. Leon Drolet. <\/p><p>From MI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcenewspapers.com\/articles\/2010\/11\/03\/news\/doc4cd1ccd2a0687457210509.txt\">SourceNewspapers.com<\/a>: <\/p><blockquote><p>In the 11th District, Jack Brandenburg defeated Democrat Jim Ayres by 31,228 votes. The Republican received 65,389 votes while Ayres received 34,161.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Brandenburg is a longtime advisory board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus, and a fervent anti-tax activist.  He also served as Chairman of the successful Repeal Affirmative Action initiative sponsored by Ward Connerly in 2006. He owns a construction firm in Macomb.  <\/p><p>Republicans now have the Governorship and appear to have taken both the State House and Senate.<\/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_7828681836623105417-8371709161253408344?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Jack Brandenburg, a former 3-term State Rep. from St. Clair Shores, easily won election to the State Senate in the 11th District, Macomb County. Back in August, Brandenburg faced a tough GOP primary against two opponents, including fellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/blue-collar-libertarian-elected-to-michigan-senate.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-30455","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\/30455"}],"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=30455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}