{"id":9186,"date":"2012-06-17T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2012-06-17T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:03:40","slug":"mccain-adelson-funding-romney-super-pac-with-foreign-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/06\/mccain-adelson-funding-romney-super-pac-with-foreign-money\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with &#8216;foreign money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2012\/06\/s-MITT-ROMNEY-IMMIGRATION-large300.jpg\" alt=\"S MITT ROMNEY IMMIGRATION large300\" title=\"s-MITT-ROMNEY-IMMIGRATION-large300.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/06\/15\/mccain_adelson_funding_romney_super_pac_with_foreign_money\" >McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with &#8216;foreign money&#8217; | The Cable<\/a>: &#8220;Senator and Romney presidential campaign surrogate John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is indirectly injecting millions of dollars in Chinese &#8220;foreign money&#8221; into Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential election effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much of Mr. Adelson&#8217;s casino profits that go to him come from his casino in Macau, which says that obviously, maybe in a roundabout way foreign money is coming into an American political campaign,&#8221; McCain said in an interview on PBS&#8217;s News Hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is a great deal of money, and we need a level playing field and we need to go back to the realization&#8230; that we have to have a limit on the flow of money and corporations are not people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adelson announced Thursday he would be giving $10 million to the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future, and reports stated his future contributions to pro-Romney groups could be &#8220;limitless.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"\"><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with &#8216;foreign money&#8217; | The Cable: &#8220;Senator and Romney presidential campaign surrogate John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is indirectly injecting millions of dollars in Chinese &#8220;foreign money&#8221; into Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential election effort. &#8220;Much of Mr. Adelson&#8217;s casino profits that go to him come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/06\/mccain-adelson-funding-romney-super-pac-with-foreign-money\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain: Adelson funding Romney Super PAC with &#8216;foreign money&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-2oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}