{"id":5,"date":"2006-08-05T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-08-11T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T18:33:17","slug":"montanas-psc-district-5-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Montana&#8217;s PSC District 5 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230; Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see.  Ken Toole is refusing to accept the endorsement of the Montana Chamber of Commerce.  Like THAT was going to happen!<\/p>\n<p>Ken Toole firmly believes that:  All business is bad, big business is evil, profit is a four-letter word, and  ordinary people aren&#8217;t capable of making their own decisions about making a living, raising a family, and what to believe; government must take that responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Hey!  I know where he got those ideas &#8211; from Karl Marx, George Soros, Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, and Nancy Pelosi, to name a few.  Someone needs to explain to Ken that there was a grand experiment in Communism in the twentieth century.  It was called the Soviet Union.  Failed miserably.  Pretty much NOT what Montanans would want for the future of this state and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The news isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that Ken won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be getting the endorsement of the Montana Chamber \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that even the Montana AFL-CIO, a traditional Democrat stalwart, couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring itself to fall over the cliff and support such an out-of-the-mainstream, radical liberal.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endorsement is one that could have gone a long way to helping Toole&#8217;s credibility.  His refusal to even talk to them reinforces his reputation as the kind of Left Wing Nut that does more to hurt, rather than help, Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230; Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see. Ken Toole is refusing to accept the endorsement of the Montana Chamber of Commerce. Like THAT was going to happen! Ken Toole firmly believes that: All business is bad, big business is evil, profit is a four-letter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}