{"id":1609,"date":"2018-08-16T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2018-08-16T01:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:54:50","slug":"elections-are-all-about-quid-pro-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Elections are all about quid pro quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Tuesday, August 14, 2018, did Fort Smith\u2019s ongoing Tammany Hall rear its ugly head again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Fort Smith voters enabled the above to occur. \t\t\tAugust 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p>At least two things were made apparent.<\/p>\n<p>1.\tLarge amounts of dark money (probably $75-100,000?) buy elections.<br \/>\n2.\tIn elections there is nearly always a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n<p>In this case it appears that the \u201cquids\u201d are\u2014(Griffin, Sicard &#038; their wannabe sycophants?) and the \u201cquo\u201d is\u2014(Rep. George McGill?)<br \/>\nWhat we don\u2019t know yet, but sure to find out soon, is what\u2019s the treasure sought by the \u201cquids\u201d and what are the \u201cquo\u2019s\u201d rewards?<\/p>\n<p>It is certain that those answers will become available in short order.<\/p>\n<p>Did Rep. McGill sell his soul to the company store?<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t the enablers learned by now that when huge amounts of $$$ are obviously being spent, e.g. on campaign advertising, it\u2019s a sure sign of dark money working its will for its own benefit?<\/p>\n<p>Joe McCutchen<br \/>\nArkansas Freedom dot com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, August 14, 2018, did Fort Smith\u2019s ongoing Tammany Hall rear its ugly head again? Some Fort Smith voters enabled the above to occur. August 15, 2018 At least two things were made apparent. 1. Large amounts of dark money (probably $75-100,000?) buy elections. 2. In elections there is nearly always a quid pro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elections are all about quid pro quo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}