{"id":547,"date":"2004-01-29T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/tuning_out_tennessee_voters\/"},"modified":"2004-01-29T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T21:04:56","slug":"tuning_out_tennessee_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/tuning_out_tennessee_voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Out Tennessee Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has stated that he won’t officially endorse any of the presidential candidate’s for the state’s Democratic primary.
\nUnsatisfied with this stance, I contacted the Governor’s Office, offering a compelling argument why he should issue a strong statement of support for Senator Edwards.
\nThe Governor’s Constituent Service Office responded thusly:<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking the time to contact the Governor and his office. Unfortunately, at this time the Governor has decided not to publicly endorse any one candidate. We are open and welcome to all the candidates coming to visit Tennessee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alas.
\nCome on, Governor. Tennessee Democrats want a winner on the ticket this fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has stated that he won’t officially endorse any of the presidential candidate’s for the state’s Democratic primary. Unsatisfied with this stance, I contacted the Governor’s Office, offering a compelling argument why he should issue a strong statement of support for Senator Edwards. The Governor’s Constituent Service Office responded thusly: Thank you […]<\/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":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}