{"id":6970,"date":"2014-06-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:57:07","slug":"exposed-the-network-of-secret-gop-pacs-raising-and-spending-money-for-the-right-wing-agenda-in-nm-progressnow-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/exposed-the-network-of-secret-gop-pacs-raising-and-spending-money-for-the-right-wing-agenda-in-nm-progressnow-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed: the network of secret GOP PACs raising and spending money for the right-wing agenda in NM | PROGRESSNOW NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the referenced Albuquerque Journal article, my first thought was \u201cwhat about the goddamn Koch Brothers (sons of the John Birch Society)?\u201d Perhaps the Journal will write a similar piece on Republican money, in which half a dozen billionaires own every GOP candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/progressnownm.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/22\/weve-outlined-the-network-of-secret-gop-pacs-raising-and-spending-money-for-the-right-wing-agenda-in-nm\/\">Exposed: the network of secret GOP PACs raising and spending money for the right-wing agenda in NM | PROGRESSNOW NM<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the Journal interviewed \u2026 went to extraordinary lengths to imply that progressive leaders weren\u2019t playing fair. <strong>And then the Journal made a point of saying \u201cRepublicans don\u2019t appear to have a similar large web of interacting PACs.\u201d&nbsp; <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>What a bunch of B.S. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Journal is just WRONG.<\/strong>&nbsp; In fact, our review of the top spending PACs in New Mexico found that the governor\u2019s Susana PAC raised and spent more money than the top two Democratic leaning PACs combined.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/progressnownm.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/22\/weve-outlined-the-network-of-secret-gop-pacs-raising-and-spending-money-for-the-right-wing-agenda-in-nm\/\">Exposed: the network of secret GOP PACs raising and spending money for the right-wing agenda in NM | PROGRESSNOW NM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the referenced Albuquerque Journal article, my first thought was \u201cwhat about the goddamn Koch Brothers (sons of the John Birch Society)?\u201d Perhaps the Journal will write a similar piece on Republican money, in which half a dozen billionaires own every GOP candidate. Exposed: the network of secret GOP PACs raising and spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/exposed-the-network-of-secret-gop-pacs-raising-and-spending-money-for-the-right-wing-agenda-in-nm-progressnow-nm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exposed: the network of secret GOP PACs raising and spending money for the right-wing agenda in NM | PROGRESSNOW NM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}