{"id":2023,"date":"2022-06-25T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:44:48","slug":"elections-2022-finance-reform-to-prevent-big-money-buying-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2022: Finance Reform to prevent Big Money buying elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s best to read into each candidate. Those with money can swarm the airwaves with 30-seconds soundbites to reinvent themselves as candidates of change. Money is buying elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People need to be reminded about this candidate. Past behavior is a good predicator of future actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westhawaiitoday.com\/2018\/12\/06\/hawaii-news\/former-carpenters-union-official-is-greens-chief-of-staff\/\">West Hawaii Today<\/a> reported this on December 6, 2018.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8221; HONOLULU \u2014 <strong>Lt. Gov. Josh Green<\/strong> has appointed a former carpenters\u2019 union official to be his chief of staff months after a super PAC funded by the union spent over $1 million supporting his candidacy in the Democratic Party primary. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brooke Wilson most recently served as political and education director for the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters. She\u2019s the only incoming staff member from the carpenters\u2019 union. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s best to read into each candidate. Those with money can swarm the airwaves with 30-seconds soundbites to reinvent themselves as candidates of change. Money is buying elections. People need to be reminded about this candidate. Past behavior is a good predicator of future actions. West Hawaii Today reported this on December 6, 2018. &#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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":[459,458,2,457],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finance-reform","tag-governor","tag-hawaii","tag-josh-green"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}