{"id":2260,"date":"2006-03-31T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2006-03-31T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:53:56","slug":"blanchard_on_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Blanchard on the Jensen Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/daily\/node\/1221\">Bill Lueders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>cBride, in her post, goes on to challenge the Jensen prosecution on grounds of cost: &#8220;I&rsquo;d be willing to bet that the prosecution cost the taxpayers more money than the supposedly illegal campaigning did. That would be a great question for the media to ask the Dane County DA: Mr. Blanchard, what was the bill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, as Woody Allen says in Annie Hall, it so happens that we have Marshall McLuhan right here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. McBride is wrong on the comparison of costs,&#8221; writes Blanchard in response to an e-mail from Isthmus. (Hmm, why didn&rsquo;t McBride, a former reporter, think to try this?) &#8220;Easily many millions of dollars in public money are not currently being spent &#8211; and will not be spent in the foreseeable future &#8211; on anything resembling the large partisan caucus offices that Republican and Democratic legislators alike used in recent years to run private campaigns.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lueders: cBride, in her post, goes on to challenge the Jensen prosecution on grounds of cost: &#8220;I&rsquo;d be willing to bet that the prosecution cost the taxpayers more money than the supposedly illegal campaigning did. That would be a great question for the media to ask the Dane County DA: Mr. Blanchard, what was [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}