{"id":32506,"date":"2018-05-21T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32506"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:05:39","slug":"democratic-anti-corruption-plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/democratic-anti-corruption-plank\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Anti-Corruption Plank"},"content":{"rendered":"

There can be no doubt that the current Republican Reich under Fuhrer Donald "Pay to Play" Trump is the most corrupt party in US history.  I consider it important that Democrats demonstrate and run on clean governance as part of a progressive platform for 2018.  Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) revealed Democratic plans for an anti-corruption plank.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Democrats plan to hammer the corruption allegations swirling around the Trump administration in the run up to the midterms, hoping to tap into a successful strategy that delivered them control of Congress in 2006.<\/p>\n

Democratic leaders will roll out the latest plank of their messaging platform Monday, focusing on a package of anti-corruption bills they say would directly target "pay-to-play" accusations linked to the White House \u2014 and some of the most controversial players in President Donald Trump\u2019s orbit \u2014 if enacted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe corruption, the conflicts of interest in this administration are important, not only because it\u2019s not the right way to do things, but because of what it means,\u201d House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a recent POLITICO Playbook event.<\/p>\n

The anti-corruption plank will focus on three key areas<\/strong>, according to a Democratic official who briefed POLITICO: overhauling campaign finance rules<\/strong>, tightening current ethics laws and strengthening voting laws by cracking down on discrimination at the polls and gerrymandering<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These issues are just a small part of a broad progressive platform, but they are a necessary part of it.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There can be no doubt that the current Republican Reich under Fuhrer Donald "Pay to Play" Trump is the most corrupt party in US history.  I consider it important that Democrats demonstrate and run on clean governance as part of a progressive platform for 2018.  Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) revealed Democratic plans for an anti-corruption plank. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}