{"id":746,"date":"2015-10-30T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2015-10-30T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:58:20","slug":"hal-pal-denies-he-is-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Hal Pal denies he is a liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, you might have seen my explanation of the I66 toll plan. \u00a0I won&#8217;t gloat, but feeling vindicated, I read today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/virginia-republicans-concoct-a-highway-horror-story-about-i-66-tolls\/2015\/10\/29\/5cf2e288-7e76-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions\">WAPO editorial page<\/a> and found that I&#8217;m not the only one who is disgusted with Hal Pal&#8217;s scary ads about the toll or Jackson Miller&#8217;s lie-ridden signs posted in the usual GOP supporter&#8217;s yards. But wait, there&#8217;s more. \u00a0Hal Pal was called to task by Gov. McAuliffe for Hal Pal&#8217;s lie-laced ads about the tolls without including any facts. \u00a0By the way, after that national Republican Presidential debate debacle on Wednesday, that sounds like the GOP mantra for both local and national elections: \u00a0Lie, Lie, Lie until they believe you. \u00a0What did Hal Pal do about the Governor&#8217;s assertion? \u00a0Instead of offering up a reasonable response and explaining why his statements aren&#8217;t lies, he explained that he was &#8220;surprised and disappointed&#8221; that the Governor accused him of lying. \u00a0&#8220;I am not a liar!&#8221; \u00a0Well, yes you are. \u00a0You have taken a plan that actually gives solo drivers the option of using I66 during rush hour and twisted it so that you can win win win. \u00a0Win at any cost. \u00a0I would call this desperate but if voters don&#8217;t know the facts, Hal Pal knows he can win. \u00a0Hopefully, through something called education, a foreign word to Hal Pal, the public will understand the Truth.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing: \u00a0As I was opening my iPad to look at a game last night, up pops that ridiculous Hal Pal ad with the folks who fawn over Hal Pal. \u00a0Were these MIFCO toadies? \u00a0One of his former&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Oh, well. \u00a0Delete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, you might have seen my explanation of the I66 toll plan. \u00a0I won&#8217;t gloat, but feeling vindicated, I read today WAPO editorial page and found that I&#8217;m not the only one who is disgusted with Hal Pal&#8217;s scary ads about the toll or Jackson Miller&#8217;s lie-ridden signs posted in the usual GOP supporter&#8217;s yards. But wait, there&#8217;s more. \u00a0Hal Pal was called to task by Gov. McAuliffe for Hal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halparrish"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}