{"id":26964,"date":"2009-08-23T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/23\/betsy-mccaughey-bags-30k-bribe\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T11:36:43","slug":"betsy-mccaughey-bags-30k-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/betsy-mccaughey-bags-30k-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy McCaughey Bags 30K Bribe Source To Fix Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy McCaughey (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/john_stewart_pwns_betsy_mccaug.php\">see this<\/a>) has been receiving $30,000 per year from a medical supply company to be on their &#8220;board.&#8221;  This is of course totally unrelated to her efforts to kill health care reform under both the Clinton and Obama administrations.  And Pink Unicorns can fly.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the company that has been paying McCaughey off, er, I mean, paying for her I&#8217;m sure very useful service as a board member is Cantel Medical.  Cantel provides a wide range of medical products. They still list McCaughey on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantelmedical.com\/about\/directors.html\">web site<\/a> as Elizabeth McCaughey, Ph.D. Chairman &#8211; Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, on the Nominating &amp; Governance Committee.  So, her statement that she is off the board appears to be questionable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/2009\/08\/21\/mccaughey\/index.html\">The story is reported by Salon. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsy McCaughey (see this) has been receiving $30,000 per year from a medical supply company to be on their &#8220;board.&#8221; This is of course totally unrelated to her efforts to kill health care reform under both the Clinton and Obama administrations. And Pink Unicorns can fly. The name of the company that has been paying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/betsy-mccaughey-bags-30k-bribe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Betsy McCaughey Bags 30K Bribe Source To Fix Image<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1771],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-70U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}