{"id":5446,"date":"2023-11-04T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2023-11-04T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T09:42:33","slug":"house-speaker-mike-johnson-makes-a-freudian-slip-while-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5446","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Mike Johnson makes a Freudian slip while fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Generally politicians inform us who they&#8217;re by their actions\u2014and typically they only inform us who they&#8217;re. Living proof: On Friday afternoon, new Home Speaker Mike Johnson despatched out a fundraising e mail that stated (in daring kind, no much less), &#8220;I refuse to place folks over politics.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That may clarify why he\u2019s been so <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/25\/2201576\/-House-GOP-gives-itself-a-new-problem-A-speaker-who-s-never-raised-real-money?pm_campaign=front_page&amp;pm_source=top_news_slot_8&amp;pm_medium=web\"><span>terrible at fundraising<\/span><\/a><span>. Clearly, there are some quality-control points in that operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/campaigns\/form\/sign-if-you-agree-democracy-should-be-easy-support-nationwide-voter-registration-2\" class=\"dk-action-link\" data-action=\"form\" data-slug=\"sign-if-you-agree-democracy-should-be-easy-support-nationwide-voter-registration-2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/widgets\/v4\/form\/sign-if-you-agree-democracy-should-be-easy-support-nationwide-voter-registration-2?format=js&amp;source=widget&amp;can_widget_id=can-form-area-sign-if-you-agree-democracy-should-be-easy-support-nationwide-voter-registration-2-930572\" data-campaign-id=\"11609\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/campaigns\/form\/sign-if-you-agree-democracy-should-be-easy-support-nationwide-voter-registration-2\">Campaign Action<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/3\/2203420\/-House-Speaker-Mike-Johnson-makes-a-Freudian-slip-while-fundraising?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally politicians inform us who they&#8217;re by their actions\u2014and typically they only inform us who they&#8217;re. Living proof: On Friday afternoon, new Home Speaker Mike Johnson despatched out a fundraising e mail that stated (in daring kind, no much less), &#8220;I refuse to place folks over politics.&#8221; That may clarify why he\u2019s been so terrible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5718,2292,318,4510,211,5719,2542],"class_list":["post-5446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-freudian","tag-fundraising","tag-house","tag-johnson","tag-mike","tag-slip","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","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=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}