{"id":6759,"date":"2012-09-15T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:04:09","slug":"turns-out-ron-paul-is-a-crook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/turns-out-ron-paul-is-a-crook\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out, Ron Paul is a Crook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new watchdog group report tells us that when it comes to travel expenses..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;he may have been reimbursed for the same flights both under his official allowance as congressman, and by either non-profit groups under his control or his campaign committee.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation would be ironic in part because Paul made fiscal responsibility a central tenet of his 2012 presidential campaign. The congressman celebrated a major victory in July when his bill to audit the Federal Reserve for greater transparency passed the House.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s possible double-billing has been in the public eye since Roll Call first reported it in February, but CREW says there is no evidence Paul has repaid the money since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/09\/12\/ron-paul-one-of-the-most-corrupt-members-of-congress-report-finds\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure his followers won&#8217;t mind this at all.  But for the rest of us it is kinda funny.  Not Ha Ha funny, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new watchdog group report tells us that when it comes to travel expenses.. &#8230;he may have been reimbursed for the same flights both under his official allowance as congressman, and by either non-profit groups under his control or his campaign committee. The revelation would be ironic in part because Paul made fiscal responsibility a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/turns-out-ron-paul-is-a-crook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turns out, Ron Paul is a Crook<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[311],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1L1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759"}],"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=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}