{"id":396328,"date":"2010-03-06T07:37:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/06\/rncs-finance-director-behind-controversial-fundraising-pitch\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:37:43","slug":"rnc%e2%80%99s-finance-director-behind-controversial-fundraising-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396328","title":{"rendered":"RNC\u2019s finance director behind controversial fundraising pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=725d55b9b0175356c6e317794ca33b8f\" >RNC&#8217;s finance director behind controversial fundraising pitch \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> In the three days since the leak of a confidential and crude Republican fundraising pitch, the party&#8217;s leaders have scrambled to distance themselves from the 72-page PowerPoint depiction of President Obama as a socialist Joker &#8212; and from the man behind it. 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