{"id":194841,"date":"2008-08-14T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/phant-sleaze-update\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T01:45:00","slug":"phant-sleaze-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/phant-sleaze-update\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phant Sleaze Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/08\/coleman_wasnt_paying_utility.php\">Senator Norm Coleman (R-MB), who got a sweetheart deal on a Washington, DC Apartment from a lobbyist<\/a>, now turns out to have not paid any rent.<\/li>\n<li>Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/08\/ak_gov_says_staffer_pressed_for_troopers_firing.php\">admitted that her office pressured the Alaska state police to fire her ex-brother in law<\/a>, but it was just, &#8220;a staffer&#8221;.  Why does the phrase, &#8220;Who will rid me of this troublesome trooper?&#8221; come to mind.<\/li>\n<li>There has been a demand that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/0808\/Fla_Dem_Party_asks_FBI_to_investigate_Rep_Buchanan.html\">FBI investigate Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)<\/a> for shaking down his Congressional staffers for campaign donations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yawn, another day, another scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Norm Coleman (R-MB), who got a sweetheart deal on a Washington, DC Apartment from a lobbyist, now turns out to have not paid any rent. Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has admitted that her office pressured the Alaska state police to fire her ex-brother in law, but it was just, &#8220;a staffer&#8221;. Why does the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194841"}],"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=194841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}