{"id":197428,"date":"2008-02-05T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/05\/mr-straight-talk-weasels-out-of-public-financing-limits\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:38:00","slug":"mr-straight-talk-weasels-out-of-public-financing-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/05\/mr-straight-talk-weasels-out-of-public-financing-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Straight Talk Weasels out of Public Financing Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8319.html\">opted out after opting in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Schmitt has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=02&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=john_mccain_has_an_exit_strate#104223\">fairly detailed analysis of the legalities<\/a>, and it basically comes down as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There has been an advisory ruling that candidates can change their mind until they actually receive the matching funds.<\/li>\n<li>He took out a loan for his campaign, but it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> contingent on matching funds, and he is not in the position of renouncing,  &#8220;an asset if it&#8217;s entangled in another transaction&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Because there is <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/hans-von-spakovsky-out-at-fec.html\">no quorum for the FEC<\/a>, there can be no rulings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So he appears legal, although he also appears to be a hypocrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, he&#8217;s opted out after opting in. Mark Schmitt has a fairly detailed analysis of the legalities, and it basically comes down as follows: There has been an advisory ruling that candidates can change their mind until they actually receive the matching funds. He took out a loan for his campaign, but it was not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1051,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-hypocrisy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197428"}],"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=197428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}