{"id":294482,"date":"2010-02-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1357"},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:21:39","slug":"capital-eyes-politiquizz-let-it-snowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294482","title":{"rendered":"Capital Eye’s PolitiQuizz: Let it Snowe!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since Washington, D.C., today is covered by nearly three feet of white stuff, and the city is effectively shut down, who better to highlight for this week’s PolitiQuizz than Sen. Olympia Snowe?<\/p>\n

The challenge<\/span>: It may not surprise you that the Portland, Maine, metro area is (geographically speaking) this longtime Republican senator’s most generous campaign cash contributor for her career. But three non-Maine metro areas also rank among Snowe’s top five contributors by metro area. Name at least two of them.<\/i> <\/p>\n

The first person to correctly answer this question by leaving an answer in this blog post’s comments section will win a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/font><\/a>, the new book for which the Center for Responsive Politics provides data and analysis. Answers will be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday. Results will be posted as part of next Monday’s PolitiQuizz. (Make sure to provide your e-mail address so we may contact you if you win!)<\/p>\n

Now back to last week’s question<\/font><\/a>, when we asked you this:<\/p>\n

“With a dozen lobbyists<\/a> on my payroll last year, and my cash in the pockets of dozens of federal lawmakers, I’m out to make sure my favorite product isn’t marginalized despite some folks’ concerns that it isn’t healthy. (We think it’s downright tasty.) In recent years, Democratic such as Harry Reid, Max Baucus and Charlie Rangel, as well as Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, Steve Buyer and Jim DeMint, have received thousands of dollars from me. In 2008, I spent more money lobbying the federal government — $450,000 — than in any other year that decade. What organization am I<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

Answer<\/span>: The Cigar Association of America.<\/b> Learn more about this group here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to “Politicalpartypooper,” who proved to be the first and only respondent to correctly identify the Cigar Association of America. Our winner receives a free copy of The Blue Pages: Second Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Washington, D.C., today is covered by nearly three feet of white stuff, and the city is effectively shut down, who better to highlight for this week’s PolitiQuizz than Sen. Olympia Snowe? The challenge: It may not surprise you that the Portland, Maine, metro area is (geographically speaking) this longtime Republican senator’s most generous campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294482","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\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}