{"id":679403,"date":"2010-03-02T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/new-earmark-study-politicians-buy-votes-taxpayer-dollars-40198\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T05:47:19","slug":"new-earmark-study-politicians-buy-votes-with-taxpayer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679403","title":{"rendered":"New Earmark Study: Politicians Buy Votes with Taxpayer Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.01.10 01:24 PM<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/americansforprosperity.org\/files\/earmarks-study.pdf\" >new study<\/a> released today by Americans for Prosperity Foundation indicates that Washington politicians use taxpayer-funded earmarks to bolster their reelection efforts, with a real effect on voters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/030110-new-earmark-study-politicians-buy-votes-taxpayer-dollars\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/030110-new-earmark-study-politicians-buy-votes-taxpayer-dollars\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;xpayer-dollars<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.01.10 01:24 PM A new study released today by Americans for Prosperity Foundation indicates that Washington politicians use taxpayer-funded earmarks to bolster their reelection efforts, with a real effect on voters. read more http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;xpayer-dollars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-679403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QK7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679403","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\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}