{"id":5188,"date":"2009-04-20T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/20\/what-would-you-pay-to-make-nor\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T07:32:33","slug":"what-would-you-pay-to-make-nor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/what-would-you-pay-to-make-nor\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you pay to make Norm Coleman go away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A joint project by Democrats has flipped traditional fund-raising on its head, by starting a campaign aimed at collecting $1 a day from supporters &#8220;to make Norm Coleman go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldprogressives.org\/\"> Progressive Change Campaign Committee<\/a>, a new group working to get like-minded candidates elected, has teamed up with Howard Dean&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyforamerica.com\/\">Democracy for America<\/a> to tap the wallets of Democrats who are disgruntled by the five-month-old ballot contest in Minnesota between Mr. Coleman, the former Republican senator, and Al Franken, the Democrat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/1-a-day-campaign-against-coleman\/?hp\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint project by Democrats has flipped traditional fund-raising on its head, by starting a campaign aimed at collecting $1 a day from supporters &#8220;to make Norm Coleman go away.&#8221; The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a new group working to get like-minded candidates elected, has teamed up with Howard Dean&#8217;s Democracy for America to tap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/what-would-you-pay-to-make-nor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What would you pay to make Norm Coleman go away?<\/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":[208,4537,33,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1lG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188"}],"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=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}