{"id":32689,"date":"2021-04-18T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32689"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:15:00","slug":"from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/18\/from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina state senator Jeff Jackson (D) has decided to move up in the world and is running to replace retiring US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) in 2022. Somehow I “friended” him on FB<\/strong><\/em> quite a while back, and I saw this morning that he had decided to show a little of his day:<\/p>\n

Running for U.S. Senate is a unique experience.<\/p>\n

So this Sunday morning, I thought I\u2019d pause the policy posts and give you a sense of what life looks like from inside our campaign.<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I got a call from a national reporter asking me a question about policy.<\/p>\n

Happy to talk, but… what he was really doing was inviting me to attack one of my opponents and hoping I\u2019d give him a quote to create confrontation. I didn\u2019t want to do that, so I kept my answer positive and non-combative.<\/p>\n

I could hear the disappointment in his voice as he gave me multiple opportunities to wage an attack:<\/p>\n

\u201cOk Senator, but do you feel it\u2019s unfortunate that other people in this race don\u2019t share that view\u2026?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fishing, this reporter is. I’d be tempted to call up the reporter’s editor and demand a better class of reporter next time. Mention that reporters should be reporting, not creating, news. Move him to the opinions page if he wants to make news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina state senator Jeff Jackson (D) has decided to move up in the world and is running to replace retiring US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) in 2022. Somehow I “friended” him on FB quite a while back, and I saw this morning that he had decided to show a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-32689","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\/32689","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=32689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32690,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions\/32690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}