{"id":519,"date":"2008-01-29T12:18:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/sign-pledge-to-urge-gop-to-support-clean-elections\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:19:19","slug":"sign-pledge-to-urge-gop-to-support-clean-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/sign-pledge-to-urge-gop-to-support-clean-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign petition urging GOP to support clean elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By David Donnelly<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector, Campaign Money Watch<\/p>\n<p>Last night as I was watching President Bush\u2019s final State of the Union address I was struck by his unwillingness to recognize the need for change in this country. War profiteering, global warming, poor health care\u2014nothing\u2019s changed. He promoted a weak version of earmark reform, but it\u2019s too little, too late, and doesn\u2019t address the real problem.<\/p>\n<p>Last week 5,000\u00a0people signed a petition asking the Republican presidential\u00a0candidates to support full public financing of elections like the three leading Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Will you join us? Sign our <a href=\"http:\/\/ga3.org\/campaign\/change\/77x38er07583mki?\">petition<\/a> today!<\/p>\n<p>Once we collect signatures for this petition, we\u2019ll fax the Republican presidential candidates a letter the day before Super Tuesday, February 5th, to urge them to support full public financing of elections.<\/p>\n<p>From big campaign contributions to the influence of bundlers and lobbyists, the role of campaign cash in our electoral process has gotten worse. The Republicans are pretending the problem doesn\u2019t exist. They need to hear from people like you that you demand real change in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s tell the Republican presidential candidates that Washington needs full public financing of elections. <\/p>\n<p>We need to end the status quo in Washington. Thanks for your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Donnelly Director, Campaign Money Watch Last night as I was watching President Bush\u2019s final State of the Union address I was struck by his unwillingness to recognize the need for change in this country. War profiteering, global warming, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/29\/sign-pledge-to-urge-gop-to-support-clean-elections\/\">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":[8,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}