{"id":31062,"date":"2020-06-11T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31062"},"modified":"2020-06-11T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:08:31","slug":"just-filled-out-my-first-questionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31062","title":{"rendered":"Just filled out my first Questionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An organization intending to amend out Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court&#8217;s blind eye to corporate influence asked me if I would support an Amendment to limit dark money in our politics. The group calls themselves <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.movetoamend.org\/amendment\">We the People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/strong> I assured them I would. <\/p>\n<p>They asked how I would do this and I simply affirmed my agreement with them, to wit:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Citizens United&#8221; has unleashed the forces of dark, untraceable money into our politics. This has been a Republican effort which derails the long standing work of Republican President Teddy Roosevelt to limit corporate spending in our elections. Equating spending and speech is not a construction found in the Constitution but a novel idea intended to advantage some politicians &#8211; those willing to do the bidding of their secret contributors. No contributor to any campaign has a right of anonymity. That is the seed bed of money-under-the-table corruption.<\/p>\n<p> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organization intending to amend out Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court&#8217;s blind eye to corporate influence asked me if I would support an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,90,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31064,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions\/31064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}