{"id":2961,"date":"2016-03-14T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:09:55","slug":"turning-point-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/turning-point-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Point USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alberto Muro<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TPUSA.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2962\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TPUSA-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"TPUSA\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two representatives from Turning Point USA set up their booth outside the Taft College library and asked students if they think \u201cbig government sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded in June 2012 by Charlie Kirk, the goal of Turning Point USA is to \u201ceducate students about the benefits of limiting the size of government and promote a free market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TPUSA2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2963\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2963\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TPUSA2-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"TPUSA2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of a student movement, Turning Point USA is an opportunity for young conservatives to come together and share ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA chapters began opening throughout campuses including a recent one established here at Taft College with Raegen Sorensena appointed as the group&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the 2016 election approaching, Turning Point USA is one of many student based political organizations aimed at enlightening students in search of a political affiliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alberto Muro  Two representatives from Turning Point USA set up their booth outside the Taft College library and asked students if they think \u201cbig government sucks.\u201d  &nbsp;  Founded in June 2012 by Charlie Kirk, the goal of Turning Point USA is to \u201ceducate students about the benefits of limiting the size<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}