{"id":808,"date":"2005-02-23T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/is_big_money_a_\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T15:20:35","slug":"is_big_money_a_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/is_big_money_a_\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Big Money a Big \u201cSo What\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/local\/dp-69106sy0feb23,0,2955796.story\">That\u2019s the way<\/a> I feel about it.  It think donations, cash or otherwise, should be disclosed, but limiting or other restrictions on political donations are a restriction of the first amendment.  If the electorate is informed and we have a vibrant free and dogged press (both assertions are arguable, I admit), then all the money in the world isn\u2019t as powerful as an informed voter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Obviously, there is an inordinate imbalance,&#8221; said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. &#8220;That&#8217;s the field. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s played. Money talks. Constituents talk. Ultimately, constituents &#8211; the ones who cast votes &#8211; speak as loudly as corporations with lots of money.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the way I feel about it. It think donations, cash or otherwise, should be disclosed, but limiting or other restrictions on political donations are a restriction of the first amendment. If the electorate is informed and we have a vibrant free and dogged press (both assertions are arguable, I admit), then all the money&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/23\/is_big_money_a_\/\">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\/808"}],"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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}