{"id":31764,"date":"2012-10-11T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31764"},"modified":"2012-10-11T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:45:13","slug":"the-nation-loophole-allows-saudi-arabian-businesses-to-spend-freely-in-our-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/11\/the-nation-loophole-allows-saudi-arabian-businesses-to-spend-freely-in-our-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nation: Loophole Allows Saudi Arabian Businesses To Spend Freely In Our Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi-funded groups have run ads against Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat in Missouri, as well as in support of Tommy Thompson, a Republican in Wisconsin. But in both cases, they\u2019ve been able to conceal the spending behind a wall of secrecy, and under the banner of groups with \u201cAmerican\u201d in the name.<\/p>\n<p>SuperPACs have to disclose their donors, so for a foreign corporation to spend big without ever revealing itself, a more practical vehicle to influence an election is something called a trade association, which can now operate as a PAC but without revealing a cent of its funding.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/170496\/loophole-allows-saudi-arabian-businesses-spend-freely-our-election#\" title=\"Saudi Arabia Spending on US Elections\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi-funded groups have run ads against Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat in Missouri, as well as in support of Tommy Thompson, a Republican in Wisconsin. But in both cases, they\u2019ve been able to conceal the spending behind a wall of secrecy, and under the banner of groups with \u201cAmerican\u201d in the name. SuperPACs have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31767,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions\/31767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}