{"id":1084,"date":"2011-08-24T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-08-24T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:53:55","slug":"fundraising-limits-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising Limits? Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.texastribune.org\/media\/images\/XDesMoines027TTCMS_jpg_312x1000_q100.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Where there&#8217;s a will, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-politics\/2012-presidential-election\/rick-perry-hits-fundraising-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s a way<\/a>. It&#8217;s not that Perry is the sole rogue in this case, either. These methods are available to all the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>What is the impact of all this money on the candidates? It means the influence of people with that kind of money to invest in a campaign are going to get something tangible for that investment, plain and simple. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/elections\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Opensecrets.org<\/a> is a great resource for looking at where all the politicians are getting their money from. You can see the major contributors and their politicians of choice. It helps to explain why, in the middle of a deep economic crisis, the boys in the Capitol seem to be more concerned with protecting Goldman Sachs than you or I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there&#8217;s a will, there&#8217;s a way. It&#8217;s not that Perry is the sole rogue in this case, either. These methods are available to all the candidates. What is the impact of all this money on the candidates? It means the influence of people with that kind of money to invest in a campaign are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}