{"id":154,"date":"2014-09-24T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-09-25T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:13:38","slug":"citizens-united-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Citizens United Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/press-releases\/2014\/09\/edit-memo-constitutional-amendment-overturn-decisions-citizens-united-debated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>check this out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/11\/opinion\/an-amendment-to-cut-political-cash.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Editorial Board<\/a> made this point in an editorial last week:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><em>\u201cThey are not under the illusion that it will become the 28th Amendment soon, if ever. But their willingness to undertake a long and difficult effort shows the importance they attach to restoring fairness to American politics by reducing the influence of big money \u2026 and amending the Constitution should not be taken lightly. It is a last resort to fix a grave civic problem. But the backers of this amendment recognize that the nature of American democracy is at stake.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><strong>I repeat&#8230;<em>the backers of this amendment recognize that the nature of American democracy is at stake.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.pfaw.org\/press-releases\/2014\/09\/edit-memo-constitutional-amendment-overturn-decisions-citizens-united-debated &nbsp; check this out. The New York Times Editorial Board made this point in an editorial last week: \u201cThey are not under the illusion that it will become the 28th Amendment soon, if ever. But their willingness to undertake a long and difficult effort shows the importance they attach to restoring fairness to American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizens-united-vs-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesolutionist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}