{"id":2524,"date":"2005-07-21T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2018-02-14T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:52:20","slug":"the-wages-of-campaign-finance-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/the-wages-of-campaign-finance-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wages of Campaign Finance Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/draftmattblunt2008.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/columbia-tribunes-tony-messenger.html\" target=\"_new\">Draft Matt Blunt 2008<\/a>, I take to task a <i>Columbia Tribune<\/i> columnist who defends state employees&#8211;in this case, Medicaid caseworkers&#8211;who tell recipients of state aid to call their legislators to demand more aid.<\/p>\n<p>This is the face of the future with strict finance reform. <i>&#8220;Merit&#8221;-based state employees with vested interest in expanding their budgets and power<\/i> can speak to potential voters who have a specific interest in one set of public policies.  And you, citizen, cannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Draft Matt Blunt 2008, I take to task a Columbia Tribune columnist who defends state employees&#8211;in this case, Medicaid caseworkers&#8211;who tell recipients of state aid to call their legislators to demand more aid. This is the face of the future with strict finance reform. &#8220;Merit&#8221;-based state employees with vested interest in expanding their [&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-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19512,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/19512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}