{"id":3212,"date":"2006-07-12T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2017-12-15T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T23:08:32","slug":"corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRUPTION!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/D741C0639DC237D3862571A800754A27?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Missouri Democratic Party to pay $20,000 campaign finance fine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Federal Election Commission has imposed a $20,000 fine on the Missouri Democratic Party for violating federal campaign finance laws during the 2002 election.<\/p>\n<p>The fine &#8212; part of a negotiated settlement &#8212; comes less than a year after the party paid a separate $110,000 fine to resolve similar allegations from the 2000 election.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it reflects more on the labyrinth of campaign finance violations that make it an incredibly violation-fraught journey to try to run for political office in this country than actual corruption.  Too bad for the Missouri Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedupmissouri.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Fired Up! Missouri<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mention this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Democratic Party to pay $20,000 campaign finance fine: The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $20,000 fine on the Missouri Democratic Party for violating federal campaign finance laws during the 2002 election. The fine &#8212; part of a negotiated settlement &#8212; comes less than a year after the party paid a separate $110,000 fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18662,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/18662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}