{"id":644253,"date":"2010-01-26T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1334"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:54:11","slug":"remembering-sen-charles-mathias-former-center-for-responsive-politics-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/644253","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sen. Charles Mathias, Former Center for Responsive Politics Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; WIDTH: 207px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 178px\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"charlesmathias.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/charlesmathias.jpg?resize=300%2C280\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/span>It&#8217;s with great sadness that the Center for Responsive Politics today learned of the death of former Sen. Charles &#8220;Mac&#8221;&nbsp;Mathias.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic U.S. Sen. Mike Mansfield once dubbed Sen. Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, the &#8220;conscience of the Senate.&#8221; Such a title is fitting for a man who eagerly worked for and with people from across the political spectrum while advocating for issues such as increased government transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from the Senate in 1987, Sen. Mathias employed his passion for open government during the 1990s as a member of the Center for Responsive Politics&#8217; board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The expertise and experience he offered proved&nbsp;invaluable as the Center fought to shine light into the dark corners of government, particularly during the early years of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Center&#8217;s thoughts today are with Sen. Mathias&#8217; family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s with great sadness that the Center for Responsive Politics today learned of the death of former Sen. Charles &#8220;Mac&#8221;&nbsp;Mathias. Democratic U.S. Sen. Mike Mansfield once dubbed Sen. Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, the &#8220;conscience of the Senate.&#8221; Such a title is fitting for a man who eagerly worked for and with people from across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HBb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}