{"id":31876,"date":"2012-10-17T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31876"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:50:12","slug":"new-york-times-california-ballot-initiatives-born-in-populism-now-come-from-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/17\/new-york-times-california-ballot-initiatives-born-in-populism-now-come-from-billionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: California Ballot Initiatives, Born in Populism, Now Come From Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Next month, California voters will be asked to consider 11 ballot propositions whose passage would carry the full force of law, an exercise in direct democracy that traces back to the Progressive Era of the early 20th century. <\/p>\n<p>This time around, though, four of them are initiatives of single rich individuals, while others are being challenged by equally wealthy critics pouring in millions of dollars to defeat them \u2014 a sign, in this era of \u201csuper PACs\u201d and Citizens United, of the increasingly sophisticated use of the populist tool by the wealthy to influence politics in the nation\u2019s most populous state. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/california-ballot-initiatives-dominated-by-the-very-rich.html?pagewanted=all\">Click here<\/a> to read full article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Next month, California voters will be asked to consider 11 ballot propositions whose passage would carry the full force of law, an exercise in direct democracy that traces back to the Progressive Era of the early 20th century. This time around, though, four of them are initiatives of single rich individuals, while [&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-31876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876","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=31876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31876\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}