{"id":19795,"date":"2011-01-05T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19795"},"modified":"2011-01-05T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:12:36","slug":"how-wall-st-execs-bankrolled-gop-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/how-wall-st-execs-bankrolled-gop-victory.html","title":{"rendered":"How Wall St. execs bankrolled GOP victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; A small network of hedge fund executives pumped at least $10 million into Republican campaign committees and allied groups before November\u2019s elections, helping bankroll GOP victories that this week will change the balance of power in Washington, according to a review of campaign records and interviews with industry insiders by the Center for Public Integrity and NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Bitterly opposed to President Barack Obama\u2019s economic and regulatory policies \u2014 including proposals to increase taxes on some of their profits \u2014 top Wall Street hedge fund moguls were unusually energized during last year\u2019s election. They held multiple fundraisers and coordinated strategy to direct what appear to be unprecedented sums into the coffers of GOP and allied political committees, according to industry and GOP fundraising sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40913123\/ns\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; A small network of hedge fund executives pumped at least $10 million into Republican campaign committees and allied groups before November\u2019s elections, helping bankroll GOP victories that this week will change the balance of power in Washington, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19796,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}