{"id":5223,"date":"2014-02-06T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2014-02-06T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:48:34","slug":"government-by-the-people-act-gets-tremendous-support-in-just-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/government-by-the-people-act-gets-tremendous-support-in-just-2-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Government By the People Act gets tremendous support in just 2 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/government-by-the-people-act-gets-tremendous-support-in-just-2-days\/screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8-05-25-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8.05.25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Gov&#039;t By the People Act\" width=\"401\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8.05.25-PM.jpg 401w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8.05.25-PM-181x225.jpg 181w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8.05.25-PM-242x300.jpg 242w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2014-02-06-at-8.05.25-PM-320x395.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a>Congressman Jon Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/ofby.us\/\">Government By the People Act<\/a> this past Wednesday and it already has half the House Co-sponsors needed to make it law. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ofby.us\/2014\/02\/06\/members-of-congress-speak-out-on-the-government-by-the-people-act\/\">what they&#8217;re saying about it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"clearall\">\n<p>House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Cong. Jon Sarbanes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/nancy-pelosi-and-john-sarbanes-reversing-the-grievous-error-of-citizens-united\/2014\/02\/04\/0f197d0a-8dba-11e3-98ab-fe5228217bd1_story.html\">explain the Act in a Washington Post Op-Ed<\/a>, reminding us that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Founders established a government of the many, not a government of the money. That\u2019s what the American people deserve.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please sign the petition showing your support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ofby.us\/citizen-cosponsor\/\">Government By the People Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/cd5representusteam\">join a Represent.Us team<\/a> mobilizing grassroots support in Congressional Districts throughout the country for a parallel issue: Project 435, a campaign that promotes passage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/is-your-congressman-against-big-money-corruption-in-america\/\">American Anti-Corruption Act<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Jon Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the Government By the People Act this past Wednesday and it already has half the House Co-sponsors needed to make it law. Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re saying about it. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Cong. Jon Sarbanes explain the Act in a Washington Post Op-Ed, reminding us that Our Founders &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/government-by-the-people-act-gets-tremendous-support-in-just-2-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government By the People Act gets tremendous support in just 2 days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":5224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}