{"id":571,"date":"2006-08-16T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2006-08-16T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T12:51:13","slug":"terripac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Terripac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth Trib carried a story about Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo,\u00c2\u00a0and the PAC he set up at\u00c2\u00a0the suggestion of his friends. After fighting to honor his wife&#8217;s wishes for the many years that she\u00c2\u00a0lay brain dead to allow her soul to go to heaven, Congressman\u00c2\u00a0Tom DeLay rallied his hard core Republican base and cronies\u00c2\u00a0like <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=557\">Cong. Oberstar<\/a> to override the courts and keep Terri comatose for another eternity.<\/p>\n<p>The PAC is not funded from special interests as such but from sympathetic visitors to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terripac.com\">his website<\/a> who chip in a little money to help him pursue the crass politicos who used his and his wife&#8217;s plight for their own political aggrandizement.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to link to the story but the DNT didn&#8217;t list it in its website and the New York Times rigorously prevents anyone but subscribers from reading their material. I found this\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2005\/12\/7\/180059.shtml\">brief story<\/a> announcing the PAC from last December. Schiavo&#8217;s critics wasted little time in trashing him at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrygazette.org\/articles\/020706TerriPACFails.html\">this<\/a> and other websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth Trib carried a story about Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo,\u00c2\u00a0and the PAC he set up at\u00c2\u00a0the suggestion of his friends&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-oberstar","category-republican-dogma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}