{"id":62478,"date":"2015-10-27T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62478"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:19:36","slug":"political-connections-you-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62478","title":{"rendered":"Political Connections?  You Decide."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just leave this here, followed by \u00a0some brief comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/10\/26\/feds-sold-horses-for-slaughter-to-rancher-with-alleged-political-ties\/\">Watchdog: Feds sold horses for slaughter to rancher with reported political ties<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>First comment: \u00a0this type of corrupt behavior is\u00a0disgusting. \u00a0Second: \u00a0since the government apparently lost\u00a0money\u00a0on the deal &#8211; but\u00a0the marketing specialist who approved the sales nonetheless got superior reviews (and bonuses) for several years while this was going on &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure I believe the &#8220;this matter did not warrant further investigation&#8221; finding.<\/p>\n<p>The full IG report <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doioig.gov\/sites\/doioig.gov\/files\/WildHorseBuyer_Public.pdf\">can be found here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this was just another bit of honest, above-board dealing from &#8220;the most transparent Administration in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just leave this here, followed by \u00a0some brief comments. Watchdog: Feds sold horses for slaughter &hellip; <a title=\"Political Connections?  You Decide.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62478\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political Connections?  You Decide.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}