{"id":3199,"date":"2013-03-12T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:42:00","slug":"with-new-group-obama-team-seeks-answer-to-karl-rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/with-new-group-obama-team-seeks-answer-to-karl-rove\/","title":{"rendered":"With new group, Obama team seeks answer to Karl Rove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3167\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference-150x90.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference-400x240.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/obama-press-conference.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, some of President Barack Obama&#8217;s most dedicated donors will fly to Washington and pony up $50,000 to attend a fundraiser for Organizing for Action, a progressive new kid on the block trying to counter the likes of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Obama will give a speech to the group, an independent non-profit that is trying to use the data, know-how, and connections of the president&#8217;s campaign to improve the chances of passing new gun laws and immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>Their host will be Jon Carson, a soft-spoken political operative who trained as a civil engineer. As the group&#8217;s executive director, he has been given the task of reviving one of the most successful campaign machines in history, and providing a counterweight to the multimillion-dollar empires managed by Republican strategist Rove and conservative billionaire activists David and Charles Koch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/12\/us-usa-lobbying-carson-idUSBRE92B06E20130312\" target=\"_blank\">With new group, Obama team seeks answer to Karl Rove | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, some of President Barack Obama&#8217;s most dedicated donors will fly to Washington and pony up $50,000 to attend a fundraiser for Organizing for Action, a progressive new kid on the block trying to counter the likes of Karl Rove and the Koch brothers. Obama will give a speech to the group, an independent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1608,1628,22,20],"tags":[90,1138,1598,1581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199"}],"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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}