{"id":3475,"date":"2013-07-02T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2013-07-02T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:03:44","slug":"the-best-government-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/02\/the-best-government-money-can-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"The best government money can buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/money-politics-illustration-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"money-politics-illustration-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/money-politics-illustration-2-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>The 1% of the 1% (the .1% identified by <a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/blog\/tag\/one-percent-of-one-percent\/\">Sunlight Foundation<\/a> as about 31,000 ultra-rich) gave 28% of all federal campaign donations in 2012, $1.3 billion.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Every single member of the House or Senate <\/strong>who won an election in 2012 received money from the 1 percent of the 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 For the 2012 elections, winning House members raised on average $1.64 million, or <strong>about $2,250 per day<\/strong>,\u00a0during the two-year cycle. The average winning senator raised even more: $10.3 million, or <strong>$14,125 per day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Of the 435 House members elected last year, <strong>372 \u2014 more than 85 percent \u2014 received more from the 1 percent of the 1 percent<\/strong> than they did from every single small donor combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1% of the 1% (the .1% identified by Sunlight Foundation as about 31,000 ultra-rich) gave 28% of all federal campaign donations in 2012, $1.3 billion. \u2022 Every single member of the House or Senate who won an election in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/02\/the-best-government-money-can-buy\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-sc-newscommentary","tag-1-percent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}