{"id":259836,"date":"2010-02-01T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75374"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:10:38","slug":"wall-street-investors-donated-big-to-scott-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259836","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Investors Donated Big to Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Brown&#8217;s 11th-hour fundraising surge was one of the great stories of the Massachusetts special election, a watershed moment when the conservative netroots proved they could hit the &#8220;donate&#8221; button as fast as liberals could. But Casey Ross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2010\/02\/01\/late_in_senate_race_financial_sector_donations_swelled_browns_coffers\/\">discovered another angle to that story<\/a>: the late burst of donations included nearly half a million dollars from financial company employees worried about Democrats&#8217; regulatory ambitions.<span id=\"more-75374\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Martin Gruss, owner of a West Palm Beach, Fla., investment firm, said he gave $2,400 to Brown because he vehemently disagrees with the policies being pursued by Obama and his economic aides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; \u201cPeople like me are scouring the country for conservative candidates,\u2019\u2019 said John Mumford, a California venture capitalist who gave the maximum $2,400 contribution to Brown four days before the election. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on in Washington is against everything I believe in, which is small government, balanced budgets, and support for free enterprise.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have no real understanding of the business implications of their actions,\u2019\u2019 he said, adding that limits on trading securities would undermine the position of the United States as the world\u2019s financial capital.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the kind of talk (remember, money is speech) likely to make Democrats optimistic about financial reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Brown&#8217;s 11th-hour fundraising surge was one of the great stories of the Massachusetts special election, a watershed moment when the conservative netroots proved they could hit the &#8220;donate&#8221; button as fast as liberals could. But Casey Ross discovered another angle to that story: the late burst of donations included nearly half a million dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259836","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}