{"id":1427,"date":"2007-11-23T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1427"},"modified":"2007-11-23T07:41:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T19:41:34","slug":"1427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1427","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/4284208a1861.html\">Vernon Small&#8217;s <em>DomPost<\/em> story on the Electoral Finance Bill<\/a> <small>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicaddress.net\/default,4628.sm\">Russell B<\/a>]<\/small>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When National has stopped making political hay from the bill \u2013 no earlier than the next election, I guess \u2013 and when Labour has stopped settling old scores, they might both like to return the debate over election funding to its fundamental aims. At the same time they should find a significant role for the people who actually own the electoral system, rather than use the power of incumbency to tilt the electoral landscape their way every three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vernon Small&#8217;s DomPost story on the Electoral Finance Bill [via Russell B]: When National has stopped making political hay from the bill \u2013 no earlier than the next election, I guess \u2013 and when Labour has stopped settling old scores, they might both like to return the debate over election funding to its fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}