{"id":578941,"date":"2010-05-25T19:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.1094"},"modified":"2010-05-25T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T00:11:12","slug":"why-are-these-people-laughing-at-alarcons-political-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578941","title":{"rendered":"Why Are These  People Laughing at Alarcon&#8217;s Political Hypocrisy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        What sane person could oppose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesfairelections.org\/\">Proposition 15 &#8212; the pilot project for clean money campaigns for Secretary of State candidates in 2014 and 2018<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of scoundrel would use the debate over such a small step toward ending political corruption and bringing fair elections to California that he would go into a moralistic diatribe against the Republican candidates for governor while ignoring how union and special interest money has made LA City Hall a mockery of democracy?<\/p>\n<p>Richard Alarcon, that&#8217;s who&#8230;the Council member under criminal investigation because he doesn&#8217;t or at least didn&#8217;t live in his district.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bCebEXgqgg0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bCebEXgqgg0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you want to support Prop. 15, Rock the Boat and Common Cause are holding a fund-raising event Tuesday June 1 at the Echo, 1822 W. Sunset Blvd. at 8:30 p.m. <font size=\"2\">with <span>Jeremy<br \/>\nDawson<br \/>\n of Shiny Toy Guns (DJ Set), White Apple Tree, &amp; Buddy Akai, $8 in advance, $10 at the door. <\/span><\/font><font size=\"2\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sane person could oppose Proposition 15 &#8212; the pilot project for clean money campaigns for Secretary of State candidates in 2014 and 2018? What kind of scoundrel would use the debate over such a small step toward ending political corruption and bringing fair elections to California that he would go into a moralistic diatribe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578941","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\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}