{"id":5479,"date":"2012-02-06T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:33:07","slug":"prison-guards-wield-big-money-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/06\/prison-guards-wield-big-money-clout\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison guards wield big money clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good-government group <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/112444\/top-127-donors-gave-16-8-million-last-year\/\">NYPIRG has released its list of the 150 biggest donors<\/a> to political campaigns and lobbying efforts in Albany, and one of the very biggest is the union that represents corrections officers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, NYSCOPBA donated nearly $274,000 to politicians, with most of the money going to the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who are in the majority in the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The prison guard union has also been the largest single donor to state Senator Betty Little from Queensbury, whose district includes roughly a dozen state and Federal prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good-government group NYPIRG has released its list of the 150 biggest donors to political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}