{"id":40798,"date":"2011-10-22T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/well-known-d-c-democrat-switches-to-republican\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T11:52:00","slug":"well-known-d-c-democrat-switches-to-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/well-known-d-c-democrat-switches-to-republican.php","title":{"rendered":"Well-known D.C. Democrat switches to Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kWQlFycsQQ0\/TqKxDdKXDiI\/AAAAAAAAWak\/J_y_kbNqdVc\/s1600\/RonMotenDC.png\"><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\/62352_RonMotenDC.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Ron Moten, a popular, but also controversial District of Columbia politico, is switching to the GOP.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/capital-land\/2011\/10\/moten-pulling-party-switch-roo-ward-7\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, \"Moten pulling the party switch-a-roo in Ward 7\":<\/p><blockquote><p>The founder of a gang and violence prevention nonprofit group in the District says he is switching parties to run against Democratic Councilwoman Yvette Alexander in Ward 7 next year. Ron Moten plans to register as a Republican on Friday and will announce his campaign on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Moten hopes to take advantage of a crowded primary field on the 'D' side, and take on a bruised opponent for the Fall election.<\/p><p>Moten is a former convicted drug dealer, turned crime-fighting community activist.<\/p><p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/looselips\/2011\/10\/21\/loose-lips-daily-ron-moten-gop-edition\/\">Washington City Paper<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Moten tells the Post that he's \"been a conservative the whole time\" and the Republican Party is needed in local politics in order to restore balance to the force.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Photo credit - DCist.com<\/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\/8967e_7828681836623105417-2190441532214734002?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Ron Moten, a popular, but also controversial District of Columbia politico, is switching to the GOP. From the Washington Examiner, \"Moten pulling the party switch-a-roo in Ward 7\":The founder of a gang and violence prevention nonprofit group in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/well-known-d-c-democrat-switches-to-republican.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-40798","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\/40798"}],"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=40798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}