{"id":32014,"date":"2012-10-26T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32014"},"modified":"2012-10-26T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T14:25:39","slug":"la-times-california-watchdog-sues-arizona-group-over-secret-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/26\/la-times-california-watchdog-sues-arizona-group-over-secret-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: California watchdog sues Arizona group over secret donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2014 California&#8217;s campaign finance watchdog sued an Arizona nonprofit group Thursday, escalating the battle over a controversial $11-million political donation.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Political Practices Commission is seeking records, ranging from financial statements to text messages, as part of an effort to unmask the nonprofit&#8217;s donors, who have been accused by activists of improperly hiding their identities.<\/p>\n<p>A California regulation says nonprofits cannot conceal a donor&#8217;s identity if the contribution was intended for a state campaign. The $11 million went to the Small Business Action Committee, which is fighting Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s tax campaign and pushing a ballot measure to curb unions&#8217; political influence.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-secret-donors-20121026,0,1943092.story\" title=\"Secret Donations to CA ballot proposition \" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2014 California&#8217;s campaign finance watchdog sued an Arizona nonprofit group Thursday, escalating the battle over a controversial $11-million political donation. The Fair Political Practices Commission is seeking records, ranging from financial statements to text messages, as part of an effort to unmask the nonprofit&#8217;s donors, who have been accused by activists of improperly hiding [&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-32014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32014","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=32014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32015,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32014\/revisions\/32015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}