{"id":2038,"date":"2005-03-09T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:55:40","slug":"2038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/2038\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Tax Money is the Only Assurance of Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat state politicians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/91F367A666372F3386256FBF0019C755?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">are upset<\/a> that Matt Blunt isn&#8217;t spending state tax money to fly himself around the state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But state Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti asserted that Blunt is once again showing &#8220;a lack of integrity&#8221; by allowing campaign donors to wield inappropriate influence in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Special interests picked his Cabinet, and now they&#8217;re taxiing him around the state to further curry favor with him,&#8221; Cardetti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Missouri Democrat party, if you don&#8217;t forcibly take money from taxpayers to spend on your own convenient travel plans, you lack integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat state politicians are upset that Matt Blunt isn&#8217;t spending state tax money to fly himself around the state: But state Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti asserted that Blunt is once again showing &#8220;a lack of integrity&#8221; by allowing campaign donors to wield inappropriate influence in his administration. &#8220;Special interests picked his Cabinet, and now [&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-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20463,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/20463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}