{"id":2060,"date":"2012-05-22T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:23:45","slug":"birther-secretary-of-state-bennett-is-romney-campaign-co-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/birther-secretary-of-state-bennett-is-romney-campaign-co-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Birther Secretary of State Bennett Is Romney Campaign Co-Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you write off Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett as another one of those fringy state officials diving deep into the birther waters of Hawaii, consider this: He is one of the co-chairs of the Romney campaign in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, that honorary position already comes with a few smudge marks. Another of Romney\u2019s co-chairs was Paul Babeu, the virulently anti-immigrant Arizona sheriff who resigned as co-chair in February when he was forced out of the closet by allegations of an affair with \u2026 an illegal Mexican immigrant.<\/p>\n<p>One more note about Bennett. Serving as Romney co-chair is a reversal of Bennett\u2019s campaign pledge when he was running in 2012 not to endorse other candidates while secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/craven_is_as_craven_does.php\">Craven Is As Craven Does | TPM Editors Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you write off Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett as another one of those fringy state officials diving deep into the birther waters of Hawaii, consider this: He is one of the co-chairs of the Romney campaign in Arizona. Then again, that honorary position already comes with a few smudge marks. Another of Romney\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22,7],"tags":[566,358,1208,1207,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}