{"id":23571,"date":"2018-09-05T06:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23571"},"modified":"2018-09-05T06:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:33:24","slug":"point-counter-point-starring-claire-mccaskill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/point-counter-point-starring-claire-mccaskill\/","title":{"rendered":"Point\/Counter-Point Starring Claire McCaskill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2018\/09\/03\/springfield-labor-day-parade-2018-missouri-mccaskill-democrats-republicans\/1121564002\/\" target=\"_new\">Joplin megadonor is workers&#8217; &#8216;No. 1 enemy,&#8217; McCaskill says at Springfield Labor Day event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Joplin businessman and megadonor is the &#8220;No. 1 enemy of working labor&#8221; in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday while urging pro-union supporters to give her a third term in Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/content\/news\/Group-gives-3-million-to-Missouri-minimum-wage-campaign-492411031.html\" target=\"_new\">Group gives $3 million to Missouri minimum wage campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit donated $3 million during the weekend to a political action committee supporting an effort to increase Missouri&#8217;s minimum wage to $12 an hour.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, are hoping the issue will increase her chances in a tight race for re-election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet Christmas, she is a plucky heroine, ainna? <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/themegadonor.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p> I was out working in my garage over the holiday weekend, and another group was running &#8220;educational&#8221; spots every commercial break about how Josh Hawley wants to suffocate type 1 diabetes sufferers with a sofa cushion or something. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a good time for me to have discovered streaming music from my phone instead of listening to the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joplin megadonor is workers&#8217; &#8216;No. 1 enemy,&#8217; McCaskill says at Springfield Labor Day event: A Joplin businessman and megadonor is the &#8220;No. 1 enemy of working labor&#8221; in Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday while urging pro-union supporters to give her a third term in Congress. Group gives $3 million to Missouri minimum wage campaign: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571","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=23571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23575,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571\/revisions\/23575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}