{"id":1791,"date":"2006-04-25T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-doolittles-rich-deal\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T16:06:39","slug":"the-doolittles-rich-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-doolittles-rich-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doolittles&#8217; Rich Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/20\/AR2006042001848.html?referrer=email\">The Doolittles&#8217; Rich Deal<\/a><br \/>\nHow one congressional couple collected campaign checks &#8212; and put $215,000 in their pockets<\/p>\n<p>IMAGINE THAT every time members of Congress received a $1,000 campaign contribution, they could skim $150 off the top and put it straight into their personal bank accounts. Sound shady? That is, in effect, how <strong class=\"highlight\">Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.)<\/strong> and his wife, Julie, operate. According to our review of campaign finance records, Mrs. Doolittle has received at least $215,000 from Mr. Doolittle&#8217;s various campaign committees since 2001. This doesn&#8217;t include $6,800 in payments to another of Mrs. Doolittle&#8217;s companies, Events Plus, before she started doing his fundraising work. She&#8217;s taken in nearly $100,000 during the 2006 campaign alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">The arrangement couldn&#8217;t smell more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doolittles&#8217; Rich Deal How one congressional couple collected campaign checks &#8212; and put $215,000 in their pockets IMAGINE THAT every time members of Congress received a $1,000 campaign contribution, they could skim $150 off the top and put it straight into their personal bank accounts. Sound shady? That is, in effect, how Rep. John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-doolittles-rich-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Doolittles&#8217; Rich Deal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}