{"id":195317,"date":"2008-07-16T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/bush-friend-who-solicited-bribes-asked-to-resign-from-hhs-comittee\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:08:00","slug":"bush-friend-who-solicited-bribes-asked-to-resign-from-hhs-comittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/16\/bush-friend-who-solicited-bribes-asked-to-resign-from-hhs-comittee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Friend Who Solicited Bribes Asked to Resign from HHS Comittee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Payne, who was selling access to the Bush administration for contributions to the Bush Library (insert &#8220;which book&#8221; joke here), has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metimes.com\/Security\/2008\/07\/15\/analysis_more_bush_library_sleaze_charges\/7bab\/\">been asked to step down from his position on the Secure Borders and Open Doors Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No big surprise there.  They have him on tape reciting a price list of bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, he&#8217;ll see some jail time, and he&#8217;ll roll on higher-ups&#8230;..How many times have I thought that recently?<\/p>\n<p>(See <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/as-if-we-didnt-know-that-bush-and-his.html\">here<\/a> for background)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Payne, who was selling access to the Bush administration for contributions to the Bush Library (insert &#8220;which book&#8221; joke here), has now been asked to step down from his position on the Secure Borders and Open Doors Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. No big surprise there. They have him on tape reciting &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195317"}],"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=195317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}