{"id":13643,"date":"2013-04-09T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2013-04-09T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:05:25","slug":"senate-candidate-seeks-ruling-on-contributions-by-gay-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/04\/09\/senate-candidate-seeks-ruling-on-contributions-by-gay-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>McClatchy<\/em> News has the story <a title=\"McClatchy article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/04\/08\/188001\/senate-candidate-seeks-ruling.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess I did not read the the opening paragraph carefully enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise I would not have been so surprised at the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pro-gay-marriage Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has asked the Federal Election Commission to determine whether gay couples have the right to make joint contributions to political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>In a request for an advisory opinion Friday, attorneys for State Rep. Dan Winslow, a moderate Republican running in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, asked the commission whether gay couples can donate to his campaign with a single check, as heterosexual married couples are allowed to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am proud to say that some Massachusetts Republicans do not fit the mold of many of the Republicans from other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy News has the story Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess I did not read the the opening paragraph carefully enough. While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law. Otherwise I would not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13644,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions\/13644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}