{"id":647611,"date":"2010-01-29T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75152"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:14:38","slug":"gop-rep-buyer-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647611","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Buyer Calls It Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/78683-report-rep-buyer-to-retire\" >The Hill<\/a>, Rep. Steve Buyer will announce today that he won&#8217;t seek reelection this year. The nine-term Indiana Republican has been in hot water recently over allegations that his charity, the Frontier Foundation, has acted simply as a vehicle for siphoning campaign contributions from corporate leaders. Earlier this week, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/node\/43950\" >filed<\/a> ethics complaints against both Buyer and the Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Local news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/dpp\/news\/embattled-congressman-buyer-to-retire\" >is reporting<\/a> that he wants to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Hill, Rep. Steve Buyer will announce today that he won&#8217;t seek reelection this year. The nine-term Indiana Republican has been in hot water recently over allegations that his charity, the Frontier Foundation, has acted simply as a vehicle for siphoning campaign contributions from corporate leaders. Earlier this week, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"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-647611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Itl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647611","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\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}