{"id":14342,"date":"2010-10-15T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:05:10","slug":"follow-the-bouncing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14342","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Bouncing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a few weeks ago, when “Common Cause Minnesota” – a “non-partisan” organization that seeks “transparency” in campaigning (also speech rationing) – filed a complaint against the pro-business PAC “Minnesota’s Future”<\/a> because it got a contribution from the Republican Governor’s Association.<\/p>\n

To help illustrate the financial trail behind Citizens For A Better Minnesota’s complaint, I’ve prepared this graphic to show you the money trail involved.<\/p>\n

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Pretty crazy-complicated, huh? \u00a0Those folks at Common Cause Minnesota sure know how to protect all us stooped citizens, don’t they?<\/p>\n

So courtesy of Derek Brigham, let’s\u00a0take a look at the transparent, clear, path that money takes <\/a> in getting to the Dayton campaign from…well, you take a look.<\/p>\n

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Now, I’m no accountant. \u00a0I asked Common Cause to come on the Northern Alliance a couple of weeks ago to discuss their complaint. \u00a0I heard nothing back – not so much as a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember a few weeks ago, when “Common Cause Minnesota” – a “non-partisan” organization that seeks “transparency” in campaigning (also speech rationing) – filed a complaint against the pro-business PAC “Minnesota’s Future” because it got a contribution from the Republican Governor’s Association. To help illustrate the financial trail behind Citizens For A Better Minnesota’s complaint, I’ve […]<\/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":[143],"class_list":["post-14342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-common-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14355,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}