{"id":32103,"date":"2021-02-04T17:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32103"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:51:55","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t normally publish another post in this series so soon after the last one, but Rep Gaetz&#8217;s (R-FL) remark is simply too deliciously absurd to ignore:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_32104\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Matt_Gaetz_117th_Congress_portrait.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32104\" class=\"wp-image-32104\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Matt_Gaetz_117th_Congress_portrait.jpg?resize=141%2C141&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Matt_Gaetz_117th_Congress_portrait.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Matt_Gaetz_117th_Congress_portrait.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Matt_Gaetz_117th_Congress_portrait.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie star looks doesn&#8217;t mean shit when it comes to performance in these circumstances.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)] told [Steve] Bannon he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d resign from Congress to fight for Trump on the Senate floor if the former president asked him to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would leave my House seat. I would leave my home,\u201d Gaetz declared. \u201cI would do anything I had to do to ensure that the greatest president in my lifetime, one of the greatest presidents our country\u2019s ever had, maybe the greatest president our country has ever had, got a full-throated defense that wasn\u2019t crouched down, that wasn\u2019t in fear of losing some moderate Republican senator, but that was worthy of the fight he gave to the great people of this country for four years.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/gaetz-bravely-volunteers-to-sacrifice-his-seat-to-defend-trump-in-impeachment-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TPM<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Trump must have been hooting with laughter at this statement. And what do the voters in Gaetz&#8217;s district think they&#8217;re doing? This ain&#8217;t a circus, voters. Selecting a Representative is serious business. Sending a clown just makes you look bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t normally publish another post in this series so soon after the last one, but Rep Gaetz&#8217;s (R-FL) remark is simply too deliciously absurd to ignore: [Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)] told [Steve] Bannon he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d resign from Congress to fight for Trump on the Senate floor if the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-14\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32106,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32103\/revisions\/32106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}