{"id":36528,"date":"2011-06-26T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/increasingly-looking-like-jeff-flake-may-get-a-free-ride-for-us-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:52","slug":"increasingly-looking-like-jeff-flake-may-get-a-free-ride-for-us-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/increasingly-looking-like-jeff-flake-may-get-a-free-ride-for-us-senate-race.php","title":{"rendered":"Increasingly looking like Jeff Flake may &quot;get a free ride&quot; for US Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FsyzYrDAMlQ\/TgH7C4MUG9I\/AAAAAAAATpU\/Vw0CaU1PQMw\/s1600\/JeffFlakebeach.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\/58966_JeffFlakebeach.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>\"Perceived strength of Rep. Flake...\"<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>It now appears that Gabrielle Giffords, due to her tragic injuries, will not be running for US Senate as a Democrat after all.  Dems had hoped that the Tucson area congresswoman would recover enough to give the Republicans a strong challenge.  <\/p><p>Now this from Goggle News via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gimdxKdZp8bVIeD8TQuIARC7FzgA?docId=d8a0c90ecdd942a995fd1d42c8536635\">AP<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Privately, some Democrats are pessimistic that her recovery will progress to the point she will run for the Senate. They view a run for her congressional seat as a more likely alternative.<\/p><p>Some Democrats said the lack of an alternative at this stage is a worrisome sign that Democrats won't field a strong challenger against the GOP nominee, most likely to be Republican Rep. Jeff Flake. Incumbent Republican Jon Kyl is retiring after three terms in the Senate.<\/p><p>\"We're stumbling around with names nobody knows,\" said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz. \"We're left with second tiers, and that's too bad, because I don't think Flake should have a free ride and he's beatable.\"<\/p><p>\"I think it's the perceived strength of Representative Flake. It's also very difficult to raise money in this economic environment,\" [fmr. AZ Democrat Chair] Pederson said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Grijalva has ruled out a run. <\/p><p><em>Photo from Flake's congressional office of his solo trip two years ago to a deserted island in the Pacific.<\/em><\/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\/58966_7828681836623105417-6981750705699079828?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Perceived strength of Rep. Flake...\"From Eric Dondero:It now appears that Gabrielle Giffords, due to her tragic injuries, will not be running for US Senate as a Democrat after all. Dems had hoped that the Tucson area congresswoman would recover enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/increasingly-looking-like-jeff-flake-may-get-a-free-ride-for-us-senate-race.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-36528","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\/36528"}],"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=36528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}