{"id":30783,"date":"2010-11-14T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/montana-democrat-thought-she-had-it-in-the-bag\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:14:44","slug":"montana-democrat-thought-she-had-it-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/montana-democrat-thought-she-had-it-in-the-bag.php","title":{"rendered":"Montana Democrat thought she had it in the bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNyrvuAA2uI\/AAAAAAAAOZM\/VYQxTc_HaSI\/s1600\/SheilaHoganMT.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\/63158_SheilaHoganMT.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>LR FOLLOW-UP<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Yesterday we ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertarianrepublican.net\/2010\/11\/working-class-tavern-owner-elected-as.html\">story<\/a> about newly-elected Montana State Rep. Alan Hale of Boulder-Helena.  Hale is an unlikely State Legislator.  He owns a bar. He is a gritty un-polished cowboy.  He ran as a grass roots Tea Party-style candidate to express some issues, and had few expectations of winning.  <\/p><p>A reader of Libertarian Republican from Montana wrote to us, with some further news on the race.  <\/p><p>Sheila Hogan, a staunchly Pro-Teachers Union, establishment liberal from Helena, spent over $50,000 on her campaign.  Hale only spent $10,000.  <\/p><p>And this bit of rather interesting information: Hogan apparently thought she would win the election with ease.  According to sources, she was seen celebrating on election night with her husband at a local capitol city restaurant, before the returns came in.  She expressed great confidence in her victory.  <\/p><p>Hale beat her with 400 votes.<\/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\/0f8c1_7828681836623105417-8675162187633914122?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LR FOLLOW-UPFrom Eric Dondero:Yesterday we ran a story about newly-elected Montana State Rep. Alan Hale of Boulder-Helena. Hale is an unlikely State Legislator. He owns a bar. He is a gritty un-polished cowboy. He ran as a grass roots Tea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/montana-democrat-thought-she-had-it-in-the-bag.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-30783","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\/30783"}],"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=30783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}