{"id":40812,"date":"2011-10-22T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/two-republicans-giving-it-a-shot-in-heavily-democrat-city-in-upstate-ny\/"},"modified":"2011-10-22T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T17:59:00","slug":"two-republicans-giving-it-a-shot-in-heavily-democrat-city-in-upstate-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/two-republicans-giving-it-a-shot-in-heavily-democrat-city-in-upstate-ny.php","title":{"rendered":"Two Republicans giving it a shot in heavily Democrat city in upstate NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RCioIBMQi5Y\/TqMF67XDW1I\/AAAAAAAAWc0\/dpPKJyJvIaY\/s1600\/RichTysonRochesterNY.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\/dd374_RichTysonRochesterNY.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Rainbow flag-waving \"social libertarian\" Republicans for Rochester<\/strong><\/p><p>From Rochester <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20111022\/NEWS0215\/110220318\">Democrat-Chronicle<\/a> \"Yes Virginia, there are still Republicans in the city\" Oct. 22:<\/p><blockquote><p>Rich Tyson says he has spent a fair amount of time trying to convince city voters that he is not Dick Cheney.<\/p><p>Such is the life of a Republican running for office in Rochester, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one and being likened to Cheney is, put mildly, not a compliment.<\/p><p>Andreas Rau is the other Republican City Council candidate in a city where a Republican hasn't held office since 1988. The two have been going door-to-door in their districts trying to convince voters that 2011 is their year.<\/p><p>Tyson is a member of the Roc City Skate Park board and describes himself as a fiscal conservative and a social libertarian. Rau flies a rainbow flag in his yard, along with six American flags. <\/p><\/blockquote><p>Rochester Republican Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochestergop.com\/index.html\">rochestergop.com<\/a><\/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\/dd374_7828681836623105417-7589460416995506814?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow flag-waving \"social libertarian\" Republicans for RochesterFrom Rochester Democrat-Chronicle \"Yes Virginia, there are still Republicans in the city\" Oct. 22:Rich Tyson says he has spent a fair amount of time trying to convince city voters that he is not Dick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/two-republicans-giving-it-a-shot-in-heavily-democrat-city-in-upstate-ny.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-40812","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\/40812"}],"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=40812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}