{"id":583,"date":"2006-06-08T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/08\/good_daily_pres\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T16:34:32","slug":"good_daily_pres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/08\/good_daily_pres\/","title":{"rendered":"Good (Daily) Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to John Bull of the Daily Press for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/local\/southofjames\/dp-44081sy0jun08,0,4377312.story?coll=dp-news-local-soj \">his article<\/a> about the MoveOn ads in the Drake-Kellam campaign.  He makes an attempt to critique the ads\u2019 truthfulness and explain the charges.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MoveOn.org&#8217;s first attack on Drake accused her of taking oil company campaign contributions and voting against price-gouging legislation. Actually, she voted for the price-gouging bill, but MoveOn.org said she didn&#8217;t vote for amendments that would have strengthened the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The second ad accused Drake of voting to benefit pharmaceutical companies in approving a complaint-ridden drug coverage program aimed at seniors. But she didn&#8217;t cast such a vote and wasn&#8217;t in Congress at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The latest ad accuses Drake of voting to protect defense contractors who were granted no-bid contracts to manage aspects of the war in Iraq, and which have made huge profits.<\/p>\n<p>The ads claim Drake accepted $27,000 in campaign contributions from defense contractors &#8211; including $1,000 from Halliburton, which used to be headed by Vice President Dick Cheney &#8211; while voting to protect them from stiffer penalties for overcharging the federal government.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the other hand, Jon Frank of the Virginia-Pilot, like most journalists, is content <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=105690&#038;ran=55252\">to allow the two sides to trade charges<\/a> without evaluating them.<\/p>\n<p>Bad, Press, Bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to John Bull of the Daily Press for his article about the MoveOn ads in the Drake-Kellam campaign. He makes an attempt to critique the ads\u2019 truthfulness and explain the charges. MoveOn.org&#8217;s first attack on Drake accused her of taking oil company campaign contributions and voting against price-gouging legislation. Actually, she voted for the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/08\/good_daily_pres\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}