{"id":178,"date":"2008-10-11T21:48:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-10-11T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:48:26","slug":"the_senate_race_in_massachuset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Race In Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was fortunate to be part of a group of people who met with Senate candidate Jeff Beatty, who is running against John Kerry.&nbsp; In the thirty years I have lived in Massachusetts, I have considered it a one-party state (with occasional Republican governors).&nbsp; But it may be time for that to change.&nbsp; Jeff Beatty came across as a natural leader with business, military and personal experiences that have prepared him well for the job of Senator.&nbsp; His work with the military and government agencies has allowed him to see up close and personal how Washington works (or doesn&#8217;t work) &nbsp;and to understand how to change it.&nbsp; He was interested in hearing what issues our small group was interested in, and was knowledgeable in those issues as well as several others he brought up.&nbsp; This man definitely has leadership qualities that we could use in Washington.&nbsp; There are two debates scheduled between John Kerry and Jeff Beatty before the election.&nbsp; I will post reminders as they get closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was fortunate to be part of a group of people who met with Senate candidate Jeff Beatty, who is running against John Kerry.&nbsp; In the thirty years I have lived in Massachusetts, I have considered it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}