{"id":183212,"date":"2015-01-25T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/25\/pass-the-popcorn-35\/"},"modified":"2015-01-25T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T00:55:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/25\/pass-the-popcorn-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/drama.gif\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pass the Popcorn<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The DoJ has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/06\/us\/new-inquiry-for-bachmann-on-her-presidential-race.html?_r=1&amp;\">opened an inquiry on Michelle and Marcus Bachmann for campaign finance violations in her 2012 run for President<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Representative Michele Bachmann\u2019s presidential hopes ended 20 months ago, but her brief and chaotic campaign continues to be the focus of ethics investigations.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The latest is a federal inquiry into whether an outside \u201csuper PAC\u201d improperly coordinated strategy with Mrs. Bachmann\u2019s campaign staff, including her husband, in violation of election laws.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Department of Justice demanded records from the super PAC last week of its finances and its communications with Mrs. Bachmann; Marcus Bachmann, her husband; and former staff members, according to a grand jury subpoena reviewed by The New York Times.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The investigation appears to stem from a complaint a former campaign staff member made to the Federal Election Commission and to the F.B.I. The staff member told of overhearing the president of the super PAC asking a Bachmann senior adviser about buying advertising on radio and TV stations in Des Moines ahead of the Iowa caucus on Jan. 3, 2012.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her political career is already over, but some jail time would be a nice message to those who think that they are anointed by God to rule over us.<\/p>\n<p>The message is, &#8220;Pride goeth before a fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pass the Popcorn The DoJ has opened an inquiry on Michelle and Marcus Bachmann for campaign finance violations in her 2012 run for President: Representative Michele Bachmann\u2019s presidential hopes ended 20 months ago, but her brief and chaotic campaign continues to be the focus of ethics investigations.The latest is a federal inquiry into whether an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1000,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-elections","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183212"}],"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=183212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}