{"id":253,"date":"2010-10-07T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-01-18T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:26:52","slug":"mountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/mountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain View Tea Party and Jeff Flake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain View Tea Party meeting tonight discussed the upcoming elections, ballot measures, and how to vote in the upcoming AZ district 5 congressional race. One person there said he wanted to write in Jeff Smith. The consensus, though, was that even though we&#8217;re unhappy with some things Jeff Flake has done, with his carbon tax proposal and stance on illegal immigration, he&#8217;s way better than the Democrat alternative, and it seemed that the overwhelming majority will vote for him. However, if Flake seems to stray more, there was a determination to get a jump on the 2012 elections and mount another, stronger challenge to him.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Smith was the candidate who challenged Jeff Flake for the Republican nomination this time around. I had a chance to chat with Jeff Smith there. He&#8217;s started a new blog you may want to check out:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tincup33.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Smith&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=www.libertymusings.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 468x60, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3862910661\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F&amp;t=Mountain+View+Tea+Party+and+Jeff+Flake+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F&amp;text=Mountain+View+Tea+Party+and+Jeff+Flake+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=The+Mountain+View+Tea+Party+meeting+tonight+discussed+the+upcoming+elections%2C+ballot+measures%2C+and+how+to+vote+in+the+upcoming+AZ+district+5+congressional+race.+One+person+there+said+he+wanted+to+write+in+Jeff+Smith.+The+consensus%2C+though%2C+was%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F&amp;title=Mountain+View+Tea+Party+and+Jeff+Flake&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=The+Mountain+View+Tea+Party+meeting+tonight+discussed+the+upcoming+elections%2C+ballot+measures%2C+and+how+to+vote+in+the+upcoming+AZ+district+5+congressional+race.+One+person+there+said+he+wanted+to+write+in+Jeff+Smith.+The+consensus%2C+though%2C+was%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Mountain+View+Tea+Party+and+Jeff+Flake&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fmountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain View Tea Party meeting tonight discussed the upcoming elections, ballot measures, and how to vote in the upcoming AZ district 5 congressional race. One person there said he wanted to write in Jeff Smith. The consensus, though, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/mountain-view-tea-party-and-jeff-flake\/\">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":[23],"tags":[77,78,79],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candidates","tag-jeff-flake","tag-jeff-smith","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}