{"id":16964,"date":"2018-08-07T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2018-08-07T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:56:56","slug":"please-dont-make-me-fund-people-i-loathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/07\/please-dont-make-me-fund-people-i-loathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Don&#8217;t Make Me Fund People I Loathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Sarbanes (D-MD) and Price (D-NC), in response to various problems with Big Money and gerrymandering, have put together a legislative proposal for the future. One of the facets of their <a href=\"https:\/\/sarbanes.house.gov\/bythepeople\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal<\/a> is public financing for smaller candidates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Protect every American\u2019s voice from being drowned out by big wealthy and well-connected donors, and allow citizen-funded candidates to combat Super PACs and outside groups by earning additional public matching funds within 60 days of an election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that if this is funded from taxes rather than donations, it&#8217;ll break up on the rocks of <em><strong>SCOTUS<\/strong><\/em>. Free speech rights should include the right not to fund the speech of someone I don&#8217;t like. If it&#8217;s funded through donations, well, I suspect donations will be anemic. Why give to an anonymous fund which will fund people I may not like, when I can just give the money to the candidate I prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives Sarbanes (D-MD) and Price (D-NC), in response to various problems with Big Money and gerrymandering, have put together a legislative proposal for the future. One of the facets of their proposal is public financing for smaller candidates: Protect every American\u2019s voice from being drowned out by big wealthy and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/07\/please-dont-make-me-fund-people-i-loathe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16965,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964\/revisions\/16965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}