{"id":21366,"date":"2013-07-28T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21366"},"modified":"2013-07-28T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T16:03:10","slug":"its-not-surprising-that-they-can-be-bought-it-is-surprising-for-how-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/28\/its-not-surprising-that-they-can-be-bought-it-is-surprising-for-how-little\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not surprising that they can be bought &#8211; it <em>is<\/em> surprising for how little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/07\/27\/bribery-pro-nsa-congressional.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> posted at <em>BoingBoing<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A detailed analysis on Maplight of the voting in last week&#8217;s vote on de-funding NSA dragnet spying found that the Congresscritters who voted in favor of more NSA spying received more than double the defense industry campaign contributions of their anti-NSA-voting rivals. They were the winners in the industry&#8217;s $13M donation bonanza leading up to the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing is how cheaply these empty suits sold out their vow to uphold the Constitution. On average, the pro-spying side got $41,635, while the anti- averaged $18,765 &mdash; a difference of $22,870. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maplight.org\/us-congress\/bill\/113-hr-2397\/1742215\/contributions-by-vote?sort=asc&amp;order=%24%20From%20Interest%20Groups%3Cbr%20%2F%3EThat%20Opposed&amp;party[D]=D&amp;party[R]=R&amp;party[I]=I&amp;vote[AYE]=AYE&amp;vote[NOE]=NOE&amp;vote[NV]=NV&amp;voted_with[with]=with&amp;voted_with[not-with]=not-with&amp;state=&amp;custom_from=01%2F01%2F2011&amp;custom_to=12%2F31%2F2012&amp;all_pols=1&amp;uid=44999&amp;interests-support=&amp;interests-oppose=D2000-D3000-D5000-D9000-D4000-D0000-D6000&amp;from=01-01-2011&amp;to=12-31-2012&amp;source=pacs-nonpacs&amp;campaign=congressional\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Contributors-and-the-NSA-amendment.jpg\" alt=\"Contributors and the NSA amendment\" width=\"544\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Contributors-and-the-NSA-amendment.jpg 544w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Contributors-and-the-NSA-amendment-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Contributors-and-the-NSA-amendment-480x352.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow posted at BoingBoing: A detailed analysis on Maplight of the voting in last week&#8217;s vote on de-funding NSA dragnet spying found that the Congresscritters who voted in favor of more NSA spying received more than double the defense industry campaign contributions of their anti-NSA-voting rivals. They were the winners in the industry&#8217;s $13M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[698,913,911],"class_list":["post-21366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5yC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21369,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366\/revisions\/21369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}