{"id":1733,"date":"2010-03-28T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2010-03-28T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:09:24","slug":"the_rising_republican_tide_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Part Of The Rising Republican Tide In Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate enough on Friday night to meet and have a chance to talk to Kamal Jain, who is running in the Republican primary for State Auditor.&nbsp; I was impressed.&nbsp; Kamal is a seasoned businessman who believes in transparency in government.&nbsp; One of the things he showed me as we talked was the chart below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kamaljain.com\/10-year-chart.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-383 \" title=\"10 Year Total Spending Chart\" alt=\"10 Year Total Spending Chart\" src=\"http:\/\/kamaljain.com\/10-year-chart.png\" width=\"448\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kamaljain.com\/10-year-chart.png\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This chart shows the difference between the actual budget of the State of Massachusetts for Fiscal Years 2000 through 2009 and the actual spending for Fiscal Years 2000 through 2009.&nbsp; This is the link to the area of his website that explains how this works, <a href=\"http:\/\/kamaljain.com\/news-events\/resources\/\">MassTransparency.com<\/a>.&nbsp; I do not claim to understand all the workings of this, but it obvious to me that there is a large amount of money spent that somehow is not in the actual budget which is voted on by the legislature and signed by the Governor.&nbsp; Mr. Jain plans to make public how the State of Massachusetts actually spends our money.&nbsp; I like that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jain is an impressive man with an impressive resume. &nbsp;I plan on voting for him in the primary election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate enough on Friday night to meet and have a chance to talk to Kamal Jain, who is running in the Republican primary for State Auditor.&nbsp; I was impressed.&nbsp; Kamal is a seasoned businessman who believes in transparency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}