{"id":472,"date":"2006-07-18T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2006-07-25T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T22:47:24","slug":"186-grand-for-grams-from-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"186 grand for Grams from Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son took a call for me yesterday from a Grand Rapids pharmacist. I called him back this morning and he told me a tale of woe; how the insurance industry monopoly was nailing him and his\u00c2\u00a0industry to the wall.\u00c2\u00a0After I&#8217;ve researched the anti-monopoly Fair Trade Act of 1941 and set up a travel itinerary we&#8217;ll have coffee to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally my manager sent me a link to Open Secrets which lists Rod <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/indus.asp?CID=N00004468&#038;cycle=2000\">Grams&#8217; major contributors<\/a> for the years he was in the Senate. Coincidentally, the Insurance industry was number two on the list at $186,000.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the fellow how it happened that he&#8217;d heard of me and he told me he&#8217;d read about me after picking up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readerweekly.us\/index.html\">Reader Weekly<\/a> in Grand Rapids. I had no idea they were distributed that far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son took a call for me yesterday from a Grand Rapids pharmacist. I called him back this morning and he told me a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}