{"id":188336,"date":"2010-10-18T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/18\/here-is-a-big-surprise\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:26:00","slug":"here-is-a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/18\/here-is-a-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is a Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The astroturf group Concerned Taxpayers of America <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/100937\/concerned-taxpayers-of-america-represents-exactly-two-taxpayers\">represents just two of said taxpayers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A few weeks ago, a group called Concerned Taxpayers of America emerged out of nowhere and started to spend large sums of money attacking Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) in his re-election bid in Oregon. At the time, both DeFazio and his opponent, Tea Party favorite Art Robinson, claimed complete ignorance of the group, and DeFazio even tracked it to a townhouse in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington to demand that the group identify itself \u2014 but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s FEC filings, however, finally reveal that the Concerned Taxpayers of America consists of exactly two concerned taxpayers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sh%$ really needs to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astroturf group Concerned Taxpayers of America represents just two of said taxpayers: A few weeks ago, a group called Concerned Taxpayers of America emerged out of nowhere and started to spend large sums of money attacking Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) in his re-election bid in Oregon. At the time, both DeFazio and his opponent, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,970,1000,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188336"}],"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=188336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}