{"id":198868,"date":"2007-10-03T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/is-edwards-going-with-public-financing-a-ploy-to-attack-hillary\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:35:00","slug":"is-edwards-going-with-public-financing-a-ploy-to-attack-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/is-edwards-going-with-public-financing-a-ploy-to-attack-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Edwards Going With Public Financing a Ploy to Attack Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/10\/in_fundraising_conference_call_edwards_camp_signals_future_attacks_on_hillary.php\">It appears so from a conference call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Campaign manager Jonathan Prince that said that Edwards &#8220;made a decision that he did not want to advocate for ending the problem of the corruption in our political financing&#8221; without taking meaningful action himself \u2014 that is, opting into the public system in order to prove his dedication to public financing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the subject of campaign finance and lobbiests came up int he debates, Hillary was an enthusiastic defender of the status quo, and this is a laying the groundwork to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear: I believe that this strategy is stupid, it appears to have sprung from the mind of Joe Trippi, but it is not insanely stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears so from a conference call. Campaign manager Jonathan Prince that said that Edwards &#8220;made a decision that he did not want to advocate for ending the problem of the corruption in our political financing&#8221; without taking meaningful action himself \u2014 that is, opting into the public system in order to prove his dedication &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198868"}],"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=198868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}