{"id":2496,"date":"2004-09-10T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2496.html"},"modified":"2004-09-10T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T15:26:36","slug":"its-come-down-to-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-come-down-to-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s come down to bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How badly does the Bush campaign want Ohio? As the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB109477288143014265,00.html?mod=politics%5Fsecondary%5Fstories%5Fhs\">noted<\/a> this morning, the president has decided he&#8217;s not above bribery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Ohio&#8217;s 20 electoral votes up for grabs, Bush administration Homeland Security official Suzanne Mencer travels to Marysville to deliver a $675,000 grant for a new firetruck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/06\/29\/rudman.report\/\">grossly underfunds<\/a>&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security, but two months before Election Day, he&#8217;ll send cash and an administration staffer to Ohio so the local fire department can buy a new truck. How subtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How badly does the Bush campaign want Ohio? As the Wall Street Journal noted this morning, the president has decided he&#8217;s not above bribery. With Ohio&#8217;s 20 electoral votes up for grabs, Bush administration Homeland Security official Suzanne Mencer travels to Marysville to deliver a $675,000 grant for a new firetruck. Bush &#8220;grossly underfunds&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}