{"id":33134,"date":"2014-05-27T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=33134"},"modified":"2014-05-27T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:00:03","slug":"cliven-bundy-switched-to-independent-american-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/27\/cliven-bundy-switched-to-independent-american-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliven Bundy Switched to Independent American Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/clivenbundy01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32321\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/clivenbundy01.jpg\" alt=\"ClivenBundy01\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a>LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8212; A Nevada rancher whose dispute with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management drew national attention is no longer a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Cliven Bundy has switched his affiliation to the Independent American Party.<\/p>\n<p>Bundy and his supporters, some of them armed militia members, thwarted a BLM roundup of his cattle near Bunkerville in April.<\/p>\n<p>The BLM says he owes more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over 20 years, but he refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Carol, signed registration forms to the cheers of supporters at an Independent American Party gathering in Las Vegas on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held to honor Bundy for what organizers called &#8220;his courage in standing up for state sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8212; A Nevada rancher whose dispute with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management drew national attention is no longer a Republican. Cliven Bundy has switched his affiliation to the Independent American Party. Bundy and his supporters, some of them armed militia members, thwarted a BLM roundup of his cattle near Bunkerville in April. The BLM says he owes more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over 20 years, but he refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands. He and<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/27\/cliven-bundy-switched-to-independent-american-party\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}