{"id":227,"date":"2015-10-22T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?p=227"},"modified":"2015-11-04T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:58:51","slug":"taking-one-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Taking One for the Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanslatenow.org\/campaign_finance_legislation_in_the_states_oct_2015\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is an update on state-level\u00a0campaign finance legislation\u00a0around the country by way of CleanSlateNow. \u00a0The story from Oregon is particularly galling. \u00a0There, the Democratic Senate leadership refused to let the Senate vote on putting a constitutional amendment to limit campaign contributions on the ballot for the\u00a0Oregon&#8217;s voters to decide. \u00a0Reformers thought they had the votes to pass the Senate and the House until Democratic leaders in the Senate killed the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it really would have passed. \u00a0It could be that an arrangement had been made whereby many of these legislators could say they supported the reform knowing that, in the end, leadership would kill it. \u00a0 That way, leadership &#8220;takes one for the team&#8221; and all the rest of the legislators stay in the good graces of reformers and the voters, too. \u00a0Could be.<\/p>\n<p>As discussed in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?page_id=159\" target=\"_blank\">Our Political Revolution<\/a><\/strong>, party leadership is often at the center of the money-for-power economy within legislatures.<\/p>\n<p>This Oregon business\u00a0reminds me of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?p=146\" target=\"_blank\">Fair Elections Now Act of 2010<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update on state-level&nbsp;campaign finance legislation&nbsp;around the country by way of CleanSlateNow. &nbsp;The story from Oregon is particularly galling. &nbsp;There, the Democratic Senate leadership refused to let the Senate vote on putting a constitutional amendment to limit campaign contributions on the ballot for the&nbsp;Oregon&rsquo;s voters to decide. &nbsp;Reformers thought they had the votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}