{"id":80,"date":"2012-03-23T22:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-03-23T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:46:50","slug":"when-government-protects-businesses-businesses-become-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2012\/03\/23\/when-government-protects-businesses-businesses-become-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"When Government Protects Businesses, Businesses Become Corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/metropolis\/2012\/03\/23\/in-new-jersey-drinking-is-on-the-political-agenda\/\">The people fighting sensible liquor reform laws in New Jersey are the ones with the most to lose<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[T]he reforms in New Jersey have been met with protests from liquor retailers and wholesalers, who worry that new ways to buy alcohol threatens their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The booze battles have caused an uptick in political spending from the industry. Lobbyists representing the beer and wine industry spent $640,500 in New Jersey last year, up by 15% from the $556,900 spent in 2010, according to an analysis of state Election Law Enforcement Commission records. The industry also made $500,325 in contributions to individual lawmakers and state political committees last year, the records show.<\/p>\n<p>The largest chunk of the lobbying money was spent by associations representing liquor retailers and wholesalers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people fighting sensible liquor reform laws in New Jersey are the ones with the most to lose: [T]he reforms in New Jersey have been met with protests from liquor retailers and wholesalers, who worry that new ways to buy alcohol threatens their livelihood. . . . The booze battles have caused an uptick in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}