{"id":239,"date":"2004-05-09T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2004-05-09T08:07:29","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T08:07:29","slug":"microsoft_pays_for_kinds_trip_to_seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft pays for Kind&#8217;s Trip to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"500\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:MpUXbXGm02YJ:vendingjackpot.com\/money%2520in%2520hand.jpg\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/kind\/photo\/photoalbum\/westernwisconsinevents\/senior.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Interesting example of money, technology &#038; politics.   Wisconsin voters have many other priorities, such as education, jobs, taxes and healthcare.   How exactly, the Windows 2003 Server and Office 2003 product launches fit into those priorities is a mystery:<br \/>\n<i><b>&#8220;If people really believe that something like this makes members of Congress bribable, obviously they have a very poor opinion of members of Congress.&#8221;<\/i><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/kind\/\" TITLE=\"Please contact Ron and let him know how you feel\">Ron Kind, Wisconsin congressman<\/a>.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/may04\/228231.asp\">Katherine M. Skiba and Jeff Nelson follow the money<\/a>&#8230;..  The airfare prices look like first class&#8230;  Why exactly would Microsoft spend money on a Congressman from La Crosse, WI?<br \/>\nAdditional trips were timed to include product launches such as Windows Server 2003 and Office 2003&#8230;.<br \/>\nMicrosoft&#8217;s priorities include copyright, patent, purchasing and other issues&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting example of money, technology &#038; politics. Wisconsin voters have many other priorities, such as education, jobs, taxes and healthcare. How exactly, the Windows 2003 Server and Office 2003 product launches fit into those priorities is a mystery: &#8220;If people really believe that something like this makes members of Congress bribable, obviously they have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}