{"id":23475,"date":"2014-05-06T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23475"},"modified":"2014-05-06T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:32:59","slug":"antiwar-rep-walter-jones-beats-neocon-backed-gop-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/antiwar-rep-walter-jones-beats-neocon-backed-gop-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar Rep. Walter Jones Beats Neocon-Backed GOP Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R &#8211; NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorgriffin.org\/about\/\">former<\/a> Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/05\/06\/3840793\/us-house-district-3-griffin-has.html?sp=\/99\/102\/\">51% to 45%<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A Congressman since 1995, Rep. Jones was challenged almost exclusively on his foreign policy positions, including his opposition to various US wars and foreign aid to Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Griffin, by contrast,<a href=\"http:\/\/m.thenation.com\/blog\/179701-neoconservative-super-pac-bets-big-north-carolina-gop-primary-challenge\"> was heavily bankrolled by the Emergency Committee for Israel<\/a> and the Ending Spending Fund SuperPAC, who put in over $1 million combined, though his own campaign site made scant mention of foreign policy, beyond presenting a big military as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorgriffin.org\/active-military\/\">good for the district&#8217;s economy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The funding paid for ads attacking Jones as &#8220;liberal&#8221; for voting against Iran sanctions and having &#8220;forgotten&#8221; the people of North Carolina in his foreign policy votes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strongly antiwar incumbent Rep. Walter Jones (R &#8211; NC) has won a hotly contested primary tonight, defeating a challenge from hawkish challenger and former Treasury Dept. official Taylor Griffin 51% to 45%. A Congressman since 1995, Rep. Jones was challenged almost exclusively on his foreign policy positions, including his opposition to various US wars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23479,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475\/revisions\/23479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}