{"id":8615,"date":"2008-06-22T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T13:29:18","slug":"dear-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"DEAR HOWARD,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My letter to the DNC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Barack Obama has seen fit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/06\/21\/obama\/index.html\">endorse<\/a> the worst excesses of the Bush Administration with his support of warrentless spying on Americans via the Protect AT&#038;T Act, I cannot in good conscience continue to donate to his campaign through the DNC.  I will direct my future contributions to electing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/06\/22\/calabresi\/index.html\">Better Democrats<\/a>.  Sadly, this will have to be done outside the party infrastructure, as the DC powerbase appears to be hopelessly corrupted by lobbyist money.<\/p>\n<p>Please confirm that my monthly donation to the DNC will end as soon as is practicable.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Daryl Cobranchi<br \/>\nID 094111641<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no illusion that my piddling little donation or my email ending the same will have any effect on what the campaign does.  But throwing away the Constitution one piece at a time is not what I signed up for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My letter to the DNC: Since Barack Obama has seen fit to endorse the worst excesses of the Bush Administration with his support of warrentless spying on Americans via the Protect AT&#038;T Act, I cannot in good conscience continue to donate to his campaign through the DNC. I will direct my future contributions to electing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}