{"id":212559,"date":"2010-01-22T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=12233"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:16:34","slug":"campaign-finance-ruling-expected-to-impact-senate-race-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212559","title":{"rendered":"Campaign finance ruling expected to impact Senate race here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already a hotly-contested race, the campaign for President Barack Obama&#8217;s former U.S. Senate seat is expected to get uglier and more expensive following today&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling that corporations and unions can spend as much as they want to sway voters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big money is going to interject itself into federal elections,&#8221; said Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois-Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And people with money always have an advantage over people without money.&#8221; <span id=\"more-12233\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The high court&#8217;s ruling led the respective front runners in Illinois&#8217; U.S. Senate primaries to start attacking each other on the issue before the Feb. 2 election has even taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/01\/kirk-giannoulias-supreme-court-ruling-campaign-senate.html\" rel='nofollow'>on Clout Street at chicagotribune.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Campaign finance ruling expected to impact Senate race here\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagotribune.com\/~r\/ChicagoBreakingNews\/~3\/A9fG7sIJby0\/campaign-finance-ruling-expected-to-impact-senate-race-here.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YJrEUnPOTlVEispeJdreuM2v3vU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YJrEUnPOTlVEispeJdreuM2v3vU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YJrEUnPOTlVEispeJdreuM2v3vU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YJrEUnPOTlVEispeJdreuM2v3vU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=rojUEgvmzes:ltVdjjJz4-w:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=rojUEgvmzes:ltVdjjJz4-w:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=rojUEgvmzes:ltVdjjJz4-w:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=rojUEgvmzes:ltVdjjJz4-w:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/rojUEgvmzes\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already a hotly-contested race, the campaign for President Barack Obama&#8217;s former U.S. Senate seat is expected to get uglier and more expensive following today&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling that corporations and unions can spend as much as they want to sway voters. &#8220;Big money is going to interject itself into federal elections,&#8221; said Kent Redfield, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}