{"id":12675,"date":"2024-08-05T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:48:31","slug":"brickbat-double-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=12675","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Double Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/c800x450-w800-q60\/uploads\/2024\/07\/zumaamericasfortytwo646281-800x450.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaking at a press conference in front of several news microphones. | Kyle Mazza\/ZUMAPRESS\/Newscom\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the previous 12 months, New York Metropolis-based political technique agency Mercury Public Affairs has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/07\/28\/mayor-johnsons-political-campaign-paid-a-firm-for-fundraising-help-while-it-lobbied-city-hall-spurring-calls-for-reform\/\">lobbied<\/a> Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on financial and labor points. And starting in 2024, it has additionally consulted for his political fund. In accordance with the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>, there aren&#8217;t any state or metropolis ethics guidelines that prohibit a political group from serving to an elected official elevate cash on the similar time it&#8217;s lobbying him.<\/p>\n<p>The submit <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/05\/brickbat-double-dip\/\">Brickbat: Double Dip<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/05\/brickbat-double-dip\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the previous 12 months, New York Metropolis-based political technique agency Mercury Public Affairs has lobbied Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on financial and labor points. And starting in 2024, it has additionally consulted for his political fund. In accordance with the Chicago Tribune, there aren&#8217;t any state or metropolis ethics guidelines that prohibit a political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6062,1343,5665],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-brickbat","tag-dip","tag-double"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}