{"id":198125,"date":"2007-12-10T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/10\/romney-spreading-walking-around-money-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T11:03:00","slug":"romney-spreading-walking-around-money-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/10\/romney-spreading-walking-around-money-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Spreading &#8220;Walking Around Money&#8221; In Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that he&#8217;s paying for endorsements.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/07\/26\/thomas-b-edsall-ethan-h_n_58040.html\">Thomas Edsall, Ethan Hova report that Romney is making massive payments to various Republicans as &#8220;GOTV Consulting&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The payments start at $500 a month, the base rate for student leaders, many of whom are chairs in the &#8220;Iowa Students for Romney&#8221; campaign organization. At a higher level, Joe Earle, former director of the Iowa Christian Alliance (the successor to the Iowa Christian Coalition) gets $4,000 a month, and Gary Marx, a top-level member on the Romney for President National Faith And Values Steering Committee, gets $8,000 a month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it appears that he gets votes the old fashioned way, he <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">buys<\/span> them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprising that Giuliani is not doing the same, he&#8217;s got an even larger war chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that he&#8217;s paying for endorsements. Thomas Edsall, Ethan Hova report that Romney is making massive payments to various Republicans as &#8220;GOTV Consulting&#8221;. The payments start at $500 a month, the base rate for student leaders, many of whom are chairs in the &#8220;Iowa Students for Romney&#8221; campaign organization. At a higher level, Joe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1000,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-elections","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198125"}],"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=198125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}