{"id":280800,"date":"2010-02-04T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21573"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:29:41","slug":"corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280800","title":{"rendered":"Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATHERINE RAMPELL writes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/corporation-says-it-will-run-for-congress\">NY Times&#8217; Economix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be \u201cdemocracy\u2019s next step\u201d: It is running for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland\u2019s 8th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the company\u2019s first \u201ccampaign\u201d ad:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CATHERINE RAMPELL writes on the NY Times&#8217; Economix: Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be \u201cdemocracy\u2019s next step\u201d: It is running for Congress. With more than a twinge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280800","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}