{"id":1759,"date":"2013-07-23T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2014-02-07T23:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T23:48:43","slug":"guest-les-rayburn-political-realist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/guest-les-rayburn-political-realist\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest: LES RAYBURN, POLITICAL REALIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nGuest: LES RAYBURN, POLITICAL REALIST<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alert-alabama.org\/pix\/skywarnsmall.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alert-alabama.org\/pix\/skywarnsmall.gif\" width=\"180\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>TOPIC-States to opt out of Obamacare<br \/>Guest Opportunity: Les Rayburn &#8211; Political Realist and Highly Decorated Combat Veteran serving in every conflict since Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Governors from four states have declared their intentions to opt out of the Medicaid portion of the Obamacare mandate and there are more than a handful of other governors ready to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling made sure that the Federal government cannot punish states for opting out of the adoption of the more generous Medicaid rules created via the President&#8217;s health care plan. The governors of Florida, Iowa, Louisiana and South Carolina have already stated their refusal to adopt the new measures. Texas, Wisconsin and others are expected to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Les Rayburn<br \/>Political Realist<br \/>Staunch Conservative<br \/>Served 35 years in the Army<br \/>Served 2 years in Viet Nam<br \/>Served 2 tours in Iraq<br \/>Highly Decorated Combat Veteran<br \/>For more about Les Rayburn, visit http:\/\/lesrayburn.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Date Recorded: 7\/24\/2012<\/p>\n<div><span>SITE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesrayburn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Site<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>Podcast of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-81009\/TS-648689.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download:<\/a><\/span><br \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><u> <\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: LES RAYBURN, POLITICAL REALIST TOPIC-States to opt out of ObamacareGuest Opportunity: Les Rayburn &#8211; Political Realist and Highly Decorated Combat Veteran serving in every conflict since Vietnam Governors from four states have declared their intentions to opt out of the Medicaid portion of the Obamacare mandate and there are more than a handful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jiggy-jaguar-experiance-guests"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}