{"id":979,"date":"2004-12-16T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/16\/virginia_news_w\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T22:07:00","slug":"virginia_news_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/16\/virginia_news_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News: Who Pays for Eavesdropping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s who footed the bill<\/a> for the GOP eavesdropping.
\nRNC — $200,000
\nAttorney General Jerry W. Kilgore — $125,000
\nU.S. Sen. John W. Warner. — $125,000
\nU.S. Sen. George Allen — $100,000
\nVirginia House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford — $50,000
\nReps. Frank R. Wolf, R-10th — $30,000
\nThomas M. Davis III, R-11th — $30,000
\nRobert W. Goodlatte, R-6th — $30,000
\nEric I. Cantor, R-7th — $30,000
\nRep.-elect Thelma Drake R-2nd — $25,000.
\nFormer GOP chairman Gary R. Thomson — $50,000
\nFormer Speaker of the House S. Vance Wilkins Jr. of Amherst & Wilkins former chief aide, Claudia D. Tucker of Amherst — $35,000.<\/p>\n

That’s more than the $750,000 total fine. The excess will help pay legal fees that amount to more than $160,000. Keep in mind that the Dems lawyers got more than $300,000, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s who footed the bill for the GOP eavesdropping. RNC — $200,000 Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore — $125,000 U.S. Sen. John W. Warner. — $125,000 U.S. Sen. George Allen — $100,000 Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford — $50,000 Reps. Frank R. Wolf, R-10th — $30,000 Thomas M. Davis III, R-11th — $30,000… 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\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}