{"id":191645,"date":"2009-07-15T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/the-shoe-drops-on-obamas-corrupt-former-car-czar\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:52:00","slug":"the-shoe-drops-on-obamas-corrupt-former-car-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/15\/the-shoe-drops-on-obamas-corrupt-former-car-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shoe Drops on Obama&#8217;s Corrupt Former Car Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07152009\/business\/cuomo__rattner_eyeing_settlement_179326.htm\">negotiating with Steve Rattner over his role in the state pension fund pay-for-play scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move of power from the cabinet, which is vetted by Congress, to the staff, like the &#8220;Car Czar&#8221;, and other similar positions, is something that has been ongoing for decades, and it is a bad thing for governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is negotiating with Steve Rattner over his role in the state pension fund pay-for-play scandal. The move of power from the cabinet, which is vetted by Congress, to the staff, like the &#8220;Car Czar&#8221;, and other similar positions, is something that has been ongoing for decades, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,970,1009,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-corruption","category-government","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191645"}],"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=191645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}