{"id":24200,"date":"2014-10-31T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24200"},"modified":"2014-10-31T22:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:04:49","slug":"for-those-of-you-interested-the-money-in-political-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24200","title":{"rendered":"For Those Of You Interested&#8211;The Money In Political Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/overview\/topindivs.php\" target=\"_blank\">opensecrets.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014a.png\" alt=\"aaaaaacampaignspending2014a\" width=\"825\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014a.png 825w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014a-300x291.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014a-308x300.png 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014b.png\" alt=\"aaaaaacampaignspending2014b\" width=\"799\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014b.png 799w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014b-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaaaacampaignspending2014b-493x300.png 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a>My point in posting this is to illustrate that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Money\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">money<\/a> in politics comes from both sides. As much as all of us hate to see the amount of money spent on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">political campaigns<\/a>, we need to remember that the money spent does provide jobs for people working on the campaign, jobs for people in various forms of media, jobs for publishers, and other people directly and indirectly related to the political season. I don&#8217;t think you can limit the amount of money spent on political campaigns without interfering with free speech rights. The only way to look at these numbers and retain your sanity is to realize that much of this money provided jobs for people who might have been otherwise unemployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from opensecrets.org: My point in posting this is to illustrate that the money in politics comes from both sides. 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