{"id":1411,"date":"2009-08-07T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2009-08-07T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:44:09","slug":"no-town-halls-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"No town halls, Virginia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/virginia-foxx-2up.jpg\" title=\"virginia-foxx-2up.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/virginia-foxx-2up.jpg\" alt=\"virginia-foxx-2up.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do a Google search for &#8220;Virginia Foxx,&#8221; you&#8217;ll see that every time she has spoken on the House floor recently, she has embarrassed North Carolina&#8217;s Fifth District. It&#8217;s not just that she is ignorant and therefore almost always wrong. Or even that she repeats the vilest and most thoroughly debunked right-wing propaganda. It&#8217;s that she&#8217;s mean.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/article1025529.ece\">GOP operatives and hate-radio hosts<\/a> are dispatching mobs to shout down home-district town halls by Democratic representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx isn&#8217;t even having a town hall. I called her Clemmons office to check her schedule. Sorry, nothing but a &#8220;telephone town hall,&#8221; which is of course a one-way affair. She talks, we listen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wataugawatch.net\/\">Watauga Watch reports<\/a> that she&#8217;s only got fund-raisers on her summer schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do a Google search for &#8220;Virginia Foxx,&#8221; you&#8217;ll see that every time she has spoken on the House floor recently, she has embarrassed North Carolina&#8217;s Fifth District. It&#8217;s not just that she is ignorant and therefore almost always wrong. Or even that she repeats the vilest and most thoroughly debunked right-wing propaganda. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No town halls, Virginia?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}