{"id":3852,"date":"2008-07-22T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:10:15","slug":"my-congressional-candidate-kieran-lalors-energy-solutions-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"My congressional candidate Kieran Lalor launches an energy solutions website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Kieran Lalor is the Republican candidate running against former rock star and current Democratic Congressman John Hall (go here for a cute picture of Hall long ago, with his band <strong><em>Orleans<\/em><\/strong> <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hall_(New_York)\"><font color=#800080>John Hall (US politician) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/font><\/A>&nbsp;). <\/P><br \/>\n<P>I have written about Lalor before; he is a former history teacher, Iraqi marine veteran, and law school graduate. I am supporting the guy (despite the lawyer thing); I don&#8217;t agree with all his positions, but I disagree with just about everything Hall stands for &#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anyway, Lalor yesterday launched a website totally devoted to addressing the energy crisis. I had a look and it&#8217;s a work in progress, but lays out what I&#8217;m sure will be the gist of his positions.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/energysecurity2008.com\/\"><font color=#800080><strong>Energy Security 2008<\/strong><\/font><\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>I totally agree with the lead sentences of his first two paragraphs:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>For too many years, America\u2019s approach to energy policy has been rooted in pure complacency&#8230;.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>and<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>This year, America is seeing the terrible results of decades of foolish policies&#8230;.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hit the link above for an outline of Lalor&#8217;s solutions.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As a friend of mine mentioned a few days ago &#8220;Just wait until the winter and we&#8217;re paying $6 a gallon for home heating oil.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kieran Lalor is the Republican candidate running against former rock star and current Democratic Congressman John Hall (go here for a cute picture of Hall long ago, with his band Orleans John Hall (US politician) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&nbsp;). I have written about Lalor before; he is a former history teacher, Iraqi marine veteran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}