{"id":12321,"date":"2010-08-14T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T07:12:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-14T07:12:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T07:12:30","slug":"candidate-lutz-hosts-hunger-strike-kickoff-rally-at-el-cajon-promenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/14\/candidate-lutz-hosts-hunger-strike-kickoff-rally-at-el-cajon-promenade\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Lutz hosts hunger strike kickoff rally at El Cajon Promenade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY<\/p>\n<p>Ray Lutz for Congress 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director<br \/>\n<br \/>619-447-3246 \/ brennan@VoteRayLutz.com<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p><h1>Candidate Lutz hosts hunger strike kickoff rally at El Cajon Promenade<\/h1>\n<p>Time: 5:30pm, August 13, 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>Location: El Cajon Park Promenade, near the Lutz for Congress Campaign office at 165 E. Main, Suite B, El Cajon CA.<br \/>\n<br \/>Media is invited.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County, Calif. (August 13, 2010) &#8211; &#8220;This is ground zero in our hunger war,&#8221; said Raymond Lutz, congressional candidate for California&#8217;s 52nd district, as he held up the new banner that would hang from his El Cajon &#8220;Isolation Booth.&#8221; The banner, which reads &#8220;Hungry for accountability in Congress: It starts with Debate,&#8221; also jabs his opponent, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter with the comment, &#8220;We&#8217;re &#8216;Hunting&#8217; for an opponent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz kicks off his hunger strike with a bang, as the El Cajon Park Promenade, which has been completely re-built, hosts its first concert performance for 2010, tonight at 5:30p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This strike is about all the issues that aren&#8217;t being debated because of Hunter&#8217;s ego,&#8221; Lutz said. &#8220;For instance, what is Hunter&#8217;s plan to help the 430,000 hungry people in San Diego at or near the poverty line? After 19 months in Congress, I&#8217;m still waiting to hear word one about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz will be at his self-described &#8220;food isolation booth,&#8221; equipped with a cot for him to lounge on, with petitions available for supporters to both pledge to go without food for a day and donate the cost of a day&#8217;s food to Lutz&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier statement, Lutz had pledged, &#8220;Until Hunter steps up to the plate to debate, I&#8217;ll be stepping away from the dinner plate.&#8221; The candidate, known for standing up against Blackwater in small communities throughout San Diego county, has pledged to sit in his public isolation booth many days throughout the hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our democracy is broken, we keep electing unqualified incumbents because the voters never see the candidates in honest debates around the district, in their own neighborhoods, and don&#8217;t have an opportunity to compare them head-to-head,&#8221; Lutz continued. &#8220;The only thing they have to go on, is party affiliation, 30-second negative ads, soundbites, and how big the signs are. Honestly, I&#8217;m not surprised Congress gives us poor results. This situation needs to be turned around, and with your help we can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to donate to Ray Lutz for Congress, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VoteRayLutz.com\">http:\/\/www.VoteRayLutz.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>For media inquiries, contact Brennan Purtzer, media coordinator, at 619.447.3246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY<\/p>\n<p>Ray Lutz for Congress 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>www.VoteRayLutz.com<br \/>\n<br \/>Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director<br \/>\n<br \/>619-447-3246 \/ brennan@VoteRayLutz.com<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p><h1>Candidate Lutz hosts hunger strike kickoff rally at El Cajon Promenade<\/h1>\n<p>Time: 5:30pm, August 13, 2010<br \/>\n<br \/>Location: El Cajon Park Promenade, near the Lutz for Congress Campaign office at 165 E. Main, Suite B, El Cajon CA.<br \/>\n<br \/>Media is invited.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County, Calif. (August 13, 2010) &#8211; &#8220;This is ground zero in our hunger war,&#8221; said Raymond Lutz, congressional candidate for California&#8217;s 52nd district, as he held up the new banner that would hang from his El Cajon &#8220;Isolation Booth.&#8221; The banner, which reads &#8220;Hungry for accountability in Congress: It starts with Debate,&#8221; also jabs his opponent, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter with the comment, &#8220;We&#8217;re &#8216;Hunting&#8217; for an opponent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz kicks off his hunger strike with a bang, as the El Cajon Park Promenade, which has been completely re-built, hosts its first concert performance for 2010, tonight at 5:30p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This strike is about all the issues that aren&#8217;t being debated because of Hunter&#8217;s ego,&#8221; Lutz said. &#8220;For instance, what is Hunter&#8217;s plan to help the 430,000 hungry people in San Diego at or near the poverty line? After 19 months in Congress, I&#8217;m still waiting to hear word one about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz will be at his self-described &#8220;food isolation booth,&#8221; equipped with a cot for him to lounge on, with petitions available for supporters to both pledge to go without food for a day and donate the cost of a day&#8217;s food to Lutz&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier statement, Lutz had pledged, &#8220;Until Hunter steps up to the plate to debate, I&#8217;ll be stepping away from the dinner plate.&#8221; The candidate, known for standing up against Blackwater in small communities throughout San Diego county, has pledged to sit in his public isolation booth many days throughout the hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our democracy is broken, we keep electing unqualified incumbents because the voters never see the candidates in honest debates around the district, in their own neighborhoods, and don&#8217;t have an opportunity to compare them head-to-head,&#8221; Lutz continued. &#8220;The only thing they have to go on, is party affiliation, 30-second negative ads, soundbites, and how big the signs are. Honestly, I&#8217;m not surprised Congress gives us poor results. This situation needs to be turned around, and with your help we can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to donate to Ray Lutz for Congress, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.VoteRayLutz.com\">http:\/\/www.VoteRayLutz.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>For media inquiries, contact Brennan Purtzer, media coordinator, at 619.447.3246<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5433,"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":[11],"tags":[4468,957,9193,230,9194,1632,9195,5173],"class_list":["post-12321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","tag-4468","tag-957","tag-9193","tag-230","tag-9194","tag-1632","tag-9195","tag-5173"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3cJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321","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\/5433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}