{"id":179588,"date":"2017-12-24T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/24\/well-that-was-fast\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:09:00","slug":"well-that-was-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/24\/well-that-was-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Was Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After running a campaign for Virginia Governor in which campaign finance prominently featured, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/government-politics\/after-calls-for-campaign-finance-reform-gov--elect-ralph\/article_e1328aef-273d-5dd2-a37c-ca723c347293.html\">Virginia Governor-elect Ralph Northam is taking corporate money for the inauguration<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After calling for sweeping campaign finance reforms during last year\u2019s Democratic primary, Gov.-elect Ralph Northam is accepting five-figure checks from some of Virginia\u2019s biggest corporate donors to fund his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Dominion Energy, the state\u2019s top public service corporation whose bankrolling of Virginia politics has made some lawmakers increasingly uneasy, contributed $50,000 to Northam\u2019s inaugural committee earlier this month, the same amount the company has given to help celebrate the last four incoming governors.<\/p>\n<p>Northam\u2019s committee received an additional $50,000 from the tobacco giant Altria, and took in $25,000 each from Anthem, Capital One, Hunton &amp; Williams and Aetna Life &amp; Casualty, well-known players in the health care, banking, legal and insurance fields.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, the inaugural committee has taken in more than $250,000 from corporate or business donors, according to data on large donations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpap.org\/committees\/314377\/top_donors\/\">compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project<\/a>. The committee has reported raising almost $650,000 so far, including a $67,795 transfer from Northam\u2019s PAC and several big checks from Democratic donors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they wonder why the electorate is cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After running a campaign for Virginia Governor in which campaign finance prominently featured, Virginia Governor-elect Ralph Northam is taking corporate money for the inauguration: After calling for sweeping campaign finance reforms during last year\u2019s Democratic primary, Gov.-elect Ralph Northam is accepting five-figure checks from some of Virginia\u2019s biggest corporate donors to fund his inauguration. Dominion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,368,374],"class_list":["post-179588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}