{"id":93485,"date":"2016-04-15T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93485"},"modified":"2016-04-17T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T15:33:08","slug":"wp-the-new-gilded-age-close-to-half-of-all-super-pac-money-comes-from-50-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93485","title":{"rendered":"WP: The new Gilded Age: Close to half of all super-PAC money comes from 50 donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, but how many are Jewish? The article does not say.<\/p>\n<p>How many are Muslim? <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/conservative-is-the-new-black\/#comment-1388856\">Comment<\/a>: &#8220;I count at least 23 of the 50 as Jewish. Those are just the ones that I could confirm quickly from the first page or two of G**gle search results, plus the ones I already knew of. There are probably more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/the-new-gilded-age-close-to-half-of-all-super-pac-money-comes-from-50-donors\/2016\/04\/15\/63dc363c-01b4-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_superpacs-830a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>: A small core of super-rich individuals is responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic that harks back to the financing of presidential campaigns in the Gilded Age.<\/p>\n<p>Close to half of the money \u2014 41 percent \u2014 raised by the groups by the end of February came from just 50 mega-donors and their relatives, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign finance reports. Thirty-six of those are Republican supporters who have invested millions trying to shape the GOP nomination contest \u2014 accounting for more than 70 percent of the money from the top 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, but how many are Jewish? The article does not say. How many are Muslim? Comment: &#8220;I count at least 23 of the 50 as Jewish. Those are just the ones that I could confirm quickly from the first page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93594,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions\/93594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}