{"id":1333,"date":"2009-02-18T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2009-02-18T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:21:52","slug":"show-me-the-money-and-ill-show-you-a-broken-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/18\/show-me-the-money-and-ill-show-you-a-broken-political-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Show me the money, and I&#8217;ll show you a broken political system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Making the case for Clean Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scstatehouse.gov\/members\/bios\/1479545277.html\">Sen. Clementa Pinckney<\/a> (D-Jasper) introduced the Clean Elections Act, legislation the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> has supported since 2000. Here is a four-minute video clip SC ETV made in 2007 on the pros and cons of publicly financed elections.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gz6rjp8MIzs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gz6rjp8MIzs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> <strong>Director Brett Bursey talks about clean elections at a Columbia CLC picnic in July 2007.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GrWS4FWBcl0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GrWS4FWBcl0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read about the Network&#8217;s campaign for clean elections that ran in the fall 2000 issue of <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/point\/\">POINT<\/a> <strong>by clicking<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/point\/0010\/p06.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the case for Clean Elections Yesterday, Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D-Jasper) introduced the Clean Elections Act, legislation the SC Progressive Network has supported since 2000. Here is a four-minute video clip SC ETV made in 2007 on the pros and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/18\/show-me-the-money-and-ill-show-you-a-broken-political-system\/\">Continue reading <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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}