{"id":441,"date":"2020-09-30T21:20:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/?p=441"},"modified":"2020-09-30T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:23:13","slug":"in-a-reps-own-words-part-ii-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/2020\/09\/30\/in-a-reps-own-words-part-ii-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Reps Own Words Part II -Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears current Barrington Rep Matt Towne is &#8220;evolving&#8221; (flip-flopping for convenience) in his take on members of the Republican party, or is it just more opportunistic hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, he has been courting Republicans for their support and posting pictures of signs that purport to show &#8220;Republicans for Biden&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, just a couple years ago, Matt put this nasty and inflammatory comment onto his Twitter account:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Matt Towne<br \/>\n@MattTowne2<\/p>\n<p>Replying to<br \/>\n@realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n<p>you are the mess. <strong>&#8220;Republicans are the soiled part of our country.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1:15 PM \u00b7 Feb 18, 2017\u00b7Twitter for iPhone&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The statement speaks for itself. Barrington deserves civility and consistency in a State Representative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears current Barrington Rep Matt Towne is &#8220;evolving&#8221; (flip-flopping for convenience) in his take on members of the Republican party, or is it just more opportunistic hypocrisy. Recently, he has been courting Republicans for their support and posting pictures of signs that purport to show &#8220;Republicans for Biden&#8221;. Yet, just a couple years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}