{"id":2327,"date":"2010-10-14T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:10:49","slug":"one_more_comment_on_last_night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"One More Comment On Last Night&#8217;s Debate For Massachusetts Third Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quote from Jim McGovern at&nbsp;the debate when speaking of the fact that corporations can now donate to campaigns (as unions have been doing for years):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 130%\"><font size=\"5\">&#8220;We have a lousy Supreme Court decision that has opened the floodgates, and so we have to deal within the realm of constitutionality. And a lot of the campaign finance bills that we have passed have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. <strong>I think the Constitution is&nbsp; wrong<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t think that money is the same thing as human beings. I don&#8217;t think money equals free speech. I don&#8217;t think corporations should have the same equality as a regular voter in this district.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That says it all for me.&nbsp; At least corporations have stockholders that hold them accountable for the money they spend.&nbsp; Who holds the unions accountable?&nbsp; Every year when he takes office, Jim McGovern swears to defend the U. S. Constitution.&nbsp; Why is he swearing to defend something he thinks is wrong?&nbsp; My source for this quote is a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2010\/10\/13\/massachusetts-democrat-jim-mcgovern-says-i-think-the-constitution-is-wrong\/\">The Other McCain<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quote from Jim McGovern at&nbsp;the debate when speaking of the fact that corporations can now donate to campaigns (as unions have been doing for years): &#8220;We have a lousy Supreme Court decision that has opened the floodgates, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2327\">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-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}