{"id":46,"date":"2004-02-20T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2004-02-20T20:23:58","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T20:23:58","slug":"democrat_fund_raiser_knocked_dean_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Fund Raiser Knocked Dean Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to learn about politics at its hardest core, read this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/sweet\/cst-edt-sweet19.html\">Chicago Sun-Times How Democrat fund-raiser scored Dean knockout<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe author of the article, Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet, is currently in residence at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I attended a seminar yesterday in which she introduced David W. Jones, the fund-raiser who produced the attack ads.<br \/>\nUsing a &#8220;527 committee&#8221; which is allowed under the McCain-Feingold law, Jones raised $663,000 from only 26 donors, including $100,000 from a single donor. He used the money to fund a poll to assess Dean&#8217;s vulnerabilities, and 3 attack ads that went after Dean: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushout.tv\/archives\/210.html\">Top Grades<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushout.tv\/archives\/277.html\">Facts<\/a>, and the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushout.tv\/archives\/230.html\">Osama ad<\/a>.<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/centristcoalition.com\/blog\/archives\/000516.html\">Centerfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to learn about politics at its hardest core, read this article in the Chicago Sun-Times How Democrat fund-raiser scored Dean knockout. The author of the article, Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet, is currently in residence at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I attended a seminar yesterday in which she introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}