{"id":973294,"date":"2023-01-28T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=80d042978333a7302db1e6e2315f61c0"},"modified":"2023-01-28T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:35:00","slug":"billionaires-lawsuit-against-orourke-may-stifle-criticism-of-money-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/28\/billionaires-lawsuit-against-orourke-may-stifle-criticism-of-money-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire\u2019s Lawsuit Against O\u2019Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Texas lawsuit has opened a new front in the ongoing battle over the reign of money in politics, making it a prime example of how wealthy individuals and mighty corporations seek to wield political influence while avoiding public accountability. As Jordan Uhl reported in a January 2023 article for The Lever, Kelcy Warren, a Texas billionaire whose fortune derives from gas and propane...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/billionaires-lawsuit-against-orourke-may-stifle-criticism-of-money-in-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/billionaires-lawsuit-against-orourke-may-stifle-criticism-of-money-in-politics\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit shows the oligarchic desire to wield political influence without being subject to public accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56746,35566,7546,17640,10342,17621,56758,4721],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973297,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973294\/revisions\/973297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}