{"id":28060,"date":"2012-05-31T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/and-the-winner-of-todays-gratuitous-jerk-award.html"},"modified":"2012-05-31T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:07:29","slug":"and-the-winner-of-todays-gratuitous-jerk-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/and-the-winner-of-todays-gratuitous-jerk-award.html","title":{"rendered":"And the winner of today&#39;s Gratuitous Jerk award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really? And have you ever looked up the word &quot;respectfully&quot;? Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Mayor Rudy Voepel. <\/p>\n<p>You&#39;re a fucking mayor. Not Superman. Please stop making us all look like assholes just because you&#39;ve got a bug up your ass.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely, <br \/>The Rest of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.alan.com\/2012\/05\/31\/california-mayor-slams-chinese-citizen-asking-for-autograph-wants-to-be-his-enemy\/'>California Mayor Slams Chinese Citizen Asking For Autograph, Wants To Be His Enemy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt could be spam, or it could just be an email from an innocent Chinese citizen asking for an autograph. Either way, Mayor Rudy Voepel of Santee, CA wasn\u2019t going to let this Commie get away with anything.<br \/>Dear Mayor:<br \/>As a great city\/county of the United States, your city\/county must be playing an important role to make the U.S. a prosperous county.<br \/>Your city\/county has charitable conventions compared to other states, which I have seen in many TV programs. You city\/county is attractive economi&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GtiCLUCSWMP' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? And have you ever looked up the word &quot;respectfully&quot;? Yeesh. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Dear Mayor Rudy Voepel. You&#39;re a fucking mayor. Not Superman. Please stop making us all look like assholes just because you&#39;ve got a bug up your ass. Sincerely, The Rest of America. Embedded Link California Mayor Slams Chinese Citizen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/and-the-winner-of-todays-gratuitous-jerk-award.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the winner of today&#39;s Gratuitous Jerk award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131705,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/stay-classy-rudy.html","url_meta":{"origin":28060,"position":0},"title":"Stay classy, Rudy","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Oct-16 2:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A financial trade group has apologized to its members (and CCed the media) for Rudy Giuliani's unscripted comments at a speaking event. 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