{"id":8783,"date":"2015-04-01T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2015-04-01T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:32:16","slug":"gov-pence-we-hardly-knew-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8783","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Pence, we hardly knew ye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So much for Mike Pence’s White House aspirations.<\/p>\n

The Indiana governor had been considered a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016. His state’s economy is in good shape. He’s a “telegenic” fellow, meaning he looks good on TV. He’s an articulate politician.<\/p>\n

Then he put his name on a piece of legislation that has created a serious political\u00a0firestorm that is engulfing his state.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/04\/mike-pence-indiana-2016-116569.html?hp=t2_r#.VRwXtFJ0yt8<\/p>\n

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has been viewed as a pretext to allow businesses to discriminate against gay people. It protects business owners from being sued if they refuse service to gays and lesbians based on their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

The backlash has been ferocious. Other state governors have banned non-essential government travel to the Hoosier State. The men’s collegiate basketball Final Four tournament to be played in Indianapolis is facing enormous economic pressure.<\/p>\n

Gov. Pence wants to tinker with RFRA to exempt the LGBT community from discrimination.<\/p>\n

The damage is done. RFRA has become synonymous with discrimination and, yep, it has Gov. Pence’s name on it.<\/p>\n

A potentially crowded Republican presidential field has been narrowed — more than likely — by one.<\/p>\n\n

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So much for Mike Pence’s White House aspirations. The Indiana governor had been considered a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016. His state’s economy is in good shape. He’s a “telegenic” fellow, meaning he looks good on TV. He’s an articulate politician. Then he put his name on a piece of legislation that has created … Continue reading Gov. Pence, we hardly knew ye<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[77,2261,2772,3067,3932],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-presidential-campaign","tag-indiana","tag-lgbt","tag-mike-pence","tag-rfra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}