{"id":8108,"date":"2011-04-29T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:30:54","slug":"big-money-donors-corrupting-bahamian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/big-money-donors-corrupting-bahamian-politics","title":{"rendered":"Big Money Donors Corrupting Bahamian Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The problem  that arises \u2013 as far as we can surmise \u2013 rests with the extent to which  money [and especially Big Money] can and does on occasion go to great  lengths to conceal itself and its ownership of this or that political  party, individual or entity.<\/p>\n<p>This leads [as day follows night] to a perception  that, in such circumstances talk about free and fair elections is just  so much high sounding hot air.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere is this truth as telling as it is in the  realm of Bahamian politics where any numbers of political aspirants  routinely tell themselves and their publics that, they are solely  motivated by their desire for public service.<\/p>\n<p>No one with an iota of common sense is ever fooled by these protestations.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When millions of dollars can be secretly pumped into electoral contests, extreme questions arise concerning the integrity of the entire democratic project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93,126],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}