Micheele Obama speaking in her hometown of Chicago:<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yeah, there\u2019s too much money in politics. There\u2019s special interests that have too much influence. ”<\/p>\n
Her cure for this?\u00a0 She asks the attending audience to write donation checks.<\/p>\n
“There is something you can do right now today to make a difference, and that is to write a big, fat check. I kid you not,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be honest with you. That\u2019s what we need you to do right now. We need you to write the biggest, fattest check that you can possibly write.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets for the event started at $500 a person and scaled upward to special donations of $10,000 and $20,000 per couple.\u00a0 But I guess that isn’t enough.<\/p>\n
I’d call her a hypocrite but I’d just be insulting hypocrites.\u00a0 Incredible. Read more: http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/24\/michelle-obama-says-money-in-politics-is-bad-asks-\/#ixzz38mIQN792<\/span><\/a> Micheele Obama speaking in her hometown of Chicago: \u201cSo, yeah, there\u2019s too much money in politics. There\u2019s special interests that have too much influence. ” Her cure for this?\u00a0 She asks the attending audience to write donation checks. “There is something you can do right now today to make a difference, and that is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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