{"id":30788,"date":"2010-11-14T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/voters-in-tennessee-not-scared-off-by-hardline-privatization-stance\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:14:46","slug":"voters-in-tennessee-not-scared-off-by-hardline-privatization-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/voters-in-tennessee-not-scared-off-by-hardline-privatization-stance.php","title":{"rendered":"Voters in Tennessee not scared off by hardline Privatization stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TN34JPtSPdI\/AAAAAAAAOak\/fz0QrukCE9I\/s1600\/StevenFincher.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\/36e5f_StevenFincher.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Back in August we highlighted the candidacy of Stephen Fincher, running for Congress in central Tennessee for a Democrat-held seat.  Fincher is a farmer from the town of Frog Jump. He's also President of his local Methodist congregation, and is a locally-known gospel singer.  A Tea Party activist, he has never held elective office.    <\/p><p>See \"Tennessee Republican attacked by Dem opponent for wanting to \"Privatize\" Social Security\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertarianrepublican.net\/2010\/08\/tennessee-republican-attacked-by-dem.html\">Libertarian Republican article<\/a> Aug. 19.  <\/p><p>Democrats attacked Fincher on his principled stance in favor of Social Security privatization.  Fincher was backed heavily by the pro-Social Security privatization group Americans For Prosperity.  <\/p><p>Fincher won overwhelmingly, 59% to 39%.  He now has the distinction of being the first Republican ever to hold Tennessee's 8th Congressional seat.  <\/p><p>Pro-Family Values\/economic libertarian Fincher is already being touted as a Rising Star in the GOP.<\/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\/36e5f_7828681836623105417-1907524162549861649?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Back in August we highlighted the candidacy of Stephen Fincher, running for Congress in central Tennessee for a Democrat-held seat. Fincher is a farmer from the town of Frog Jump. He's also President of his local Methodist congregation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/voters-in-tennessee-not-scared-off-by-hardline-privatization-stance.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-30788","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\/30788"}],"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=30788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}