{"id":183740,"date":"2012-12-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/05\/i-am-in-the-wrong-line-of-work\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:00:00","slug":"i-am-in-the-wrong-line-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/05\/i-am-in-the-wrong-line-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"I am in the Wrong Line of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Armey just got an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/12\/dick-armey-freedomworks-president-clashed-over-book-deal-84599.html?hp=l12\">$8 million golden handshake from FreedomWorks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Dick Armey left the deep-pocketed tea party group he helped build over a clash with a top lieutenant who Armey and others in the organization believed was using the group\u2019s resources to pad his pockets, POLITICO has learned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Armey received an <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">$8 million buyout<\/span><\/b> to step down as chairman of FreedomWorks at the end of last month, but the dispute between him and the group\u2019s president, Matt Kibbe, is still straining the organization.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An $8 f%$#ing million severance?<\/p>\n<p>I need to become a conservative Republican rat f%$#er.<\/p>\n<p>The money might be worth my immortal soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Armey just got an $8 million golden handshake from FreedomWorks: Dick Armey left the deep-pocketed tea party group he helped build over a clash with a top lieutenant who Armey and others in the organization believed was using the group\u2019s resources to pad his pockets, POLITICO has learned.Armey received an $8 million buyout to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,975,969,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-employment","category-evil","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183740"}],"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=183740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}