{"id":509,"date":"2004-09-04T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T13:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2004-09-04T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T13:31:32","slug":"tim_michels_bra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Tim Michels, Brats &#038; The Induce Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke briefly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelsforsenate.com\/\">Tim Michels<\/a>, Republican candidate for US Senate at today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bratfest.com\">bratfest<\/a>.   I asked Tim what his views were on the pending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=induce\">Induce act<\/a> and similar hollywood backed anti-consumer legislation (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000697.php\">Induce Act would outlaw the iPod<\/a>&#8230;).<br \/>\nMichels was not familiar with this legislation.<br \/>\nRather than pushing the Patriot Act (not sure it&#8217;s working all that well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000697.php\">given this information<\/a>), Michels would be better served to focus on issues that affect our economic future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke briefly with Tim Michels, Republican candidate for US Senate at today&#8217;s bratfest. I asked Tim what his views were on the pending Induce act and similar hollywood backed anti-consumer legislation (the Induce Act would outlaw the iPod&#8230;). Michels was not familiar with this legislation. Rather than pushing the Patriot Act (not sure it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}