{"id":4519,"date":"2008-07-17T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:01:37","slug":"hulshof-leads-in-corrupting-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/hulshof-leads-in-corrupting-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulshof Leads In Corrupting Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> headline is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/politics\/story\/A8B836CBA391976C8625748800122D8C?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Steelman lags behind Hulshof<\/a>.  What, in votes?  No.  Projected votes based on a few people reached by phone?  No.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GOP gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof rode a wave of endorsements to fundraising success this quarter, outpacing his primary opponent, Sarah Steelman, by more than a 4-1 ratio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, he&#8217;s raised more money than she has.  But!  Citizen, money is a corrupting influence in politics, which is why (the rationale goes) it must be limited by the government.<\/p>\n<p>But the papers, who cheerlead the limitations because they like all government intervention, especially the ones that increase their influence, report on this as though it&#8217;s indicative of anything more than who&#8217;s got the friends with the deepest pockets.<\/p>\n<p>We could expect it to be Hulshof, the Washington, D.C., resident running for the job.  I&#8217;m for Steelman, of course, because I think going to Washington, D.C., is sort of like a British man going to WWI.  Dudes, I&#8217;m Mrs. Dalloway in this scenario, and I just want to have a little party here without damaged veterans of foreign wars or DC &#8220;politics&#8221; (self- and party-enrichment) ruining it.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s my point, other than I saw the movie of the Woolf novel?  Oh, yeah, go Steelman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post-Dispatch headline is Steelman lags behind Hulshof. What, in votes? No. Projected votes based on a few people reached by phone? No. GOP gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof rode a wave of endorsements to fundraising success this quarter, outpacing his primary opponent, Sarah Steelman, by more than a 4-1 ratio. That is, he&#8217;s raised more [&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-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","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=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17457,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions\/17457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}