{"id":2476,"date":"2002-05-21T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2002-05-21T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2002-05-21T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2002-05-21T14:51:06","slug":"the-skybox-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"THE SKYBOX KING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/ladowntownnews.com\/archive\/index.inn?loc=detail&#038;doc=\/2002\/May\/10-984-edit3.txt\">Downtown News Online Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Much like the Bush Administration&#8217;s response to the Enron fiasco, Davis supporters insist that the governor&#8217;s appetite for campaign contributions only affects politics, not policy. Yet, in 2001, a $115,000 donation from a development company led to approval of a hotly contested reservoir project in the Sacramento Delta. The governor&#8217;s office successfully killed a bill that would have protected bank depositor privacy after top-drawer financial firms poured over a half million into the Davis campaign. Late last year, Davis refused to support a key teachers union bill after the group rebuffed his repeated demands for a $1 million campaign contribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m saddened that no one on the Democratic side of the aisle has the nerve to stand up to this. I&#8217;m even more saddened that the statewide media have laid down their Good Government ideals enough to give Davis a free ride on this.<br \/>\nOut of this kind of insane corruption, one hopes, comes reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Downtown News Online Archives Much like the Bush Administration&#8217;s response to the Enron fiasco, Davis supporters insist that the governor&#8217;s appetite for campaign contributions only affects politics, not policy. Yet, in 2001, a $115,000 donation from a development company led to approval of a hotly contested reservoir project in the Sacramento Delta. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}