{"id":448360,"date":"2010-03-19T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79811"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:36:06","slug":"153000-later-titus-is-a-%e2%80%98yes%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448360","title":{"rendered":"$153,000 Later, Titus Is a \u2018Yes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just the last seven days, third-party groups spent $153,000 on independent expenditures to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VWQ7X8aQymQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\">commercials<\/a>, make phone calls and fund other activities to pressure Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) to vote against the health care plan, according to the Federal Election Commission. $153,000 later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/19\/dina-titus-vote-yes-health-care-reform\/\">Titus says she&#8217;s voting for the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens United Political Victory Fund, the affiliated PAC of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensunited.org\/index.aspx\">Citizens United<\/a>, ponied up $125,000 on a television commercial that ran this week and an additional $15,000 on another commercial and phone calls. Americans for Responsible Health Care, which ran ads to aid Scott Brown in this year&#8217;s Massachusetts Senate race, kicked in another $10,000.<span id=\"more-79811\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though Titus may not vote the way these third-party groups had hoped, the money hasn&#8217;t necessarily gone to waste. Republicans are working to weaken Titus as she heads into a potentially difficult re-election race this November. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already targeted Titus for additional campaign support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just the last seven days, third-party groups spent $153,000 on independent expenditures to buy commercials, make phone calls and fund other activities to pressure Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) to vote against the health care plan, according to the Federal Election Commission. $153,000 later, Titus says she&#8217;s voting for the bill. Citizens United Political Victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448360","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\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}