{"id":547345,"date":"2010-04-29T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.77022"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:31:24","slug":"linda-mcmahon-will-refuse-pay-if-elected-to-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547345","title":{"rendered":"Linda McMahon Will Refuse Pay If Elected To Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Linda McMahon says she will not accept a paycheck if she is elected to the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n<p>Rank-and-file members of Congress currently receive $174,000 per year and are free to turn down a pay increase or a pay check.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Linda just doesn&#8217;t believe politics ought to be a cushy job that turns into a profession,&#8221; said McMahon&#8217;s spokesman, Shawn McCoy. &#8220;There&#8217;s an enormous amount of work that needs to be done to get this country back on track beginning with job creation and tightening of government&#8217;s fiscal belt. Her refusal to take a salary, I think, is an important symbolic gesture that underscores her principles on this.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McMahon is running against Rob Simmons and Peter Schiff for the Republican nomination. They could not be reached for comment&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Linda McMahon says she will not accept a paycheck if she is elected to the U.S. Senate. Rank-and-file members of Congress currently receive $174,000 per year and are free to turn down a pay increase or a pay check. &#8220;Linda just doesn&#8217;t believe politics ought to be a cushy job that turns into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547345","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\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}