{"id":1048,"date":"2004-07-30T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/supporters_only\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T17:59:41","slug":"supporters_only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/supporters_only\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard of ticketed events, but isn&#8217;t <a title=\"Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement\" href=\"http:\/\/abqjournal.com\/elex\/204620elex07-30-04.htm\">this<\/a> getting a little ridiculous?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some would-be spectators hoping to attend Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s rally in Rio Rancho this weekend walked out of a Republican campaign office miffed and ticketless Thursday after getting this news: Unless you sign an endorsement for President George W. Bush, you&#8217;re not getting any passes.<br \/>\nThe Albuquerque Bush-Cheney Victory office in charge of doling out the tickets to Saturday&#8217;s event was requiring the endorsement forms from people it could not verify as supporters.<br \/>\nState Rep. Dan Foley, R-Roswell, speaking on behalf of the Republican Party, said Thursday that a &#8220;known Democrat operative group&#8221; was intending to try to crash Saturday&#8217;s campaign rally at Rio Rancho Mid-High School. He added that some people were providing false names and addresses and added that tickets for the limited-seating event should go to loyal Bush backers.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m outraged at this. I&#8217;m being closed off by my own government. It&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; said East Mountains resident Pamela Random, who added that she is an unaffiliated voter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Event is at a public facility, no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/supporters_only\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Supporters Only\"><p>I&#8217;ve heard of ticketed events, but isn&#8217;t this getting a little ridiculous? Some would-be spectators hoping to attend Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s rally in Rio Rancho this weekend walked out of a Republican campaign office miffed and ticketless Thursday after getting this news: Unless you sign an endorsement for President George W. Bush, you&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}