{"id":1135,"date":"2004-07-10T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:26:51","slug":"1135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/10\/1135\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper and Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do campaign finance laws protect incumbents, but as Owen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments_w_sidebars\/2866\/\" target=\"_new\">Boots and Sabers points out<\/a>, apparently they also protect polisci majors and other non-productive members of society.  Or at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/jul04\/242434.asp\" target=\"_new\">they penalize business owners who run for office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next few months are a vital time for selling cars, but the Russ Darrow Group, with 20 dealerships throughout the state, may have to stifle its familiar pitch.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because it is a vital period for selling candidacies, too. And the namesake of the car dealership chain, Russ Darrow Jr., is in the hunt for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.<\/p>\n<p>New federal election law may forbid any television or radio advertising bearing Darrow&#8217;s name and not funded by his Senate campaign during the 30 days before the Sept. 14 Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would appear as if such (car) advertisements might be considered electioneering communications,&#8221; and thus prohibited, said Ian Stirton, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Citizens, I ask you, is this freeing you from the corrupting influence of advertising impressing messages into your malleable mind or is it protecting a self-appointed ruling class who can schmooze their way through four years of schmooze classes, a couple of D.C. internships, an appointment or two, and then election through incumbent indulgence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do campaign finance laws protect incumbents, but as Owen at Boots and Sabers points out, apparently they also protect polisci majors and other non-productive members of society. Or at least they penalize business owners who run for office: The next few months are a vital time for selling cars, but the Russ Darrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23093,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}