{"id":16142,"date":"2018-04-25T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16142"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:01:57","slug":"mulvaney-runs-on-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16142","title":{"rendered":"Mulvaney runs on bribes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I probably shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that another repub just stood up and said that he won&#8217;t listen to anyone unless they give him cash&#8230;but damn, to come out and admit you have committed crimes throughout your political career seems to be a wee bit too much. That&#8217;s exactly what Mick Mulvaney did yesterday when he stood up in front of 1200 bankers and said this: &#8220;if you&#8217;re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn&#8217;t talk to you. If you&#8217;re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.&#8221; So, Mulvaney is telling lobbyists or anyone else that wants to talk to him to pay him a bribe first or no dice&#8230;.and this tells us all that he doesn&#8217;t give a damn about the people he works for, you and me, but just people who will line his pockets but doesn&#8217;t stop there&#8230;he also tells the bankers that they need to pay other repubs, too, and thinks it is &#8220;a fundamental underpinning of representative democracy&#8221; to pay-to-play and only people with money should have any say in the government. You know how I feel about this sickening revelation of how the repubs think&#8230;and, we can end this crap of government for the rich if we just vote in November&#8230;.impeach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.I probably shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that another repub just stood up and said that he won&#8217;t listen to anyone unless they give him cash&#8230;but damn, to come out and admit you have committed crimes throughout your political career seems to be a wee bit too much. That&#8217;s exactly what Mick Mulvaney did yesterday when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mulvaney runs on bribes&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1074,1620],"class_list":["post-16142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bribery","tag-mick-mulvaney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16144,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions\/16144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}