{"id":2535,"date":"2008-10-15T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2008-10-15T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:59:18","slug":"jim-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/jim-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Martin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/10\/15\/163820\/43\/52\/631507\"><strong>Senate Race Roundup<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>GA-Sen<\/strong>: The DSCC is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/content\/metro\/stories\/2008\/10\/14\/money_martin_chambliss.html\">investing heavily<\/a><\/strong> in Georgia. They have made their first ad buy in the state supporting Democrat Jim Martin against Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>  By late Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had bought about $500,000 worth of advertising time on at least five metro Atlanta television stations for spots to support Democratic senate candidate Jim Martin in his uphill battle against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie. The spots begin running today. <\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">There may well be more where that came from, too.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>  The size of the DSCC order is substantial. At $514,950, it is much larger than any weekly TV ad buy made by Martin since of the start of his campaign. The ad is scheduled to run 369 times by next week.   <\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">This race made its way onto the national radar in midsummer, and it has now become one of the nation&#8217;s key battlegrounds for control of the Senate&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martinforsenate.com\/features_jimfolks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">My friend, representative, and neighbor for 30+ years, Jim Martin is like Obama, <font color=\"#200020\"><strong>born honest<\/strong><\/font>, <font color=\"#200020\"><strong>born for public service<\/strong><\/font>. He&#8217;ll be a fabulous Senator. His opponent, Saxby Chambliss, is a Bush clone and the guy who &quot;swift-boated&quot; Max Cleland [a triple amputee from his Viet Nam service]. If you know some voters in Georgia, give them a call. Now the DSCC is finally picking up some of the tab. Thankfully! We&#8217;re all about donated out down here. <font color=\"#200020\"><strong>Jim Martin is a &quot;ten&quot;<\/strong><\/font>&#8230;  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Race Roundup GA-Sen: The DSCC is investing heavily in Georgia. They have made their first ad buy in the state supporting Democrat Jim Martin against Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss. By late Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had bought about $500,000 worth of advertising time on at least five metro Atlanta television stations for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}