{"id":196310,"date":"2008-05-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/08\/mcconnell-holds-out-for-all-or-nothing-fec-vote\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T04:01:00","slug":"mcconnell-holds-out-for-all-or-nothing-fec-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/08\/mcconnell-holds-out-for-all-or-nothing-fec-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Holds Out For All or Nothing FEC Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting.  McConnell is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/0508\/McConnell_warns_FEC_stalemate_will_continue.html\">still wants the FEC nominations voted on all at once<\/a>, as opposed to individually, which effectively kills the new nominations by Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a clue as to what the heck is going on here?  Why is Mitch McConnell dissing the White House and putting McCain in a bind over this?<\/p>\n<p>As long as there are no new nominees, then David Mason stays head of the FEC, and he has been harshing on McCain something fierce, so there are two reasons that I he&#8217;s doing this, he hates McCain, or that van Spakovsky has some sort of hold on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting. McConnell is still wants the FEC nominations voted on all at once, as opposed to individually, which effectively kills the new nominations by Bush. Anyone have a clue as to what the heck is going on here? Why is Mitch McConnell dissing the White House and putting McCain in a bind over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196310"}],"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=196310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}