{"id":11876,"date":"2010-06-15T00:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-15T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:23:44","slug":"when-dick-cheney-went-campaigning-for-meg-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/15\/when-dick-cheney-went-campaigning-for-meg-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dick Cheney Went Campaigning for Meg Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, I wasn’t exactly surprised when Dick Cheney endorsed Meg Whitman<\/a> for governor last month. We always knew Whitman was a right-wing candidate<\/a> whose policy proposals come straight out of the George W. Bush school of thought. No wonder other leading right-wingers joined Dick Cheney in endorsing whitman – Newt Gingrich, Condoleeza Rice, Mitt Romney, and others.<\/p>\n

In fact, what this looked like to us at the Courage Campaign (where I work as the Public Policy Director) was a vast right-wing force trying to impose its will on California. And when Dick Cheney came out of his undisclosed location to offer his endorsement, the first thing that came to our minds was Darth Vader – or as some have called him, Darth Cheney.<\/p>\n

We thought more Californians should know that Dick Cheney endorsed Meg Whitman. So we joined our friends at the California Federation of Teachers to produce this video showing what happened one afternoon when “Darth” Cheney went out campaigning in Los Angeles for Meg Whitman:<\/p>\n

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Dick Cheney, a master of evil, has a new dark apprentice. It’s time for progressive Californians to form our own rebel alliance to fight back against this right-wing empire in which Whitman is a rising star. If you’re not already a part of the Courage Campaign, you can click to watch the video and sign up to become part of our progressive rebel alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you like this video, you can share it with your friends on Facebook<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, I wasn’t exactly surprised when Dick Cheney endorsed Meg Whitman<\/a> for governor last month. We always knew Whitman was a right-wing candidate<\/a> whose policy proposals come straight out of the George W. Bush school of thought. No wonder other leading right-wingers joined Dick Cheney in endorsing whitman – Newt Gingrich, Condoleeza Rice, Mitt Romney, and others.<\/p>\n

In fact, what this looked like to us at the Courage Campaign (where I work as the Public Policy Director) was a vast right-wing force trying to impose its will on California. And when Dick Cheney came out of his undisclosed location to offer his endorsement, the first thing that came to our minds was Darth Vader – or as some have called him, Darth Cheney.<\/p>\n

We thought more Californians should know that Dick Cheney endorsed Meg Whitman. So we joined our friends at the California Federation of Teachers to produce this video showing what happened one afternoon when “Darth” Cheney went out campaigning in Los Angeles for Meg Whitman:<\/p>\n

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Dick Cheney, a master of evil, has a new dark apprentice. It’s time for progressive Californians to form our own rebel alliance to fight back against this right-wing empire in which Whitman is a rising star. If you’re not already a part of the Courage Campaign, you can click to watch the video and sign up to become part of our progressive rebel alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you like this video, you can share it with your friends on Facebook<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-35y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}