{"id":31231,"date":"2012-09-12T07:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31231"},"modified":"2012-09-12T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:06:33","slug":"hedge-fund-honcho-seeks-to-oust-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/hedge-fund-honcho-seeks-to-oust-congressman.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund honcho seeks to oust congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marketplace &#8211; Super PAC\u00a0Prosperity First, which is bankrolled by wealthy hedge fund CEO\u00a0Robert Mercer, is attempting to oust Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in New York\u2019s 1st Congressional District. In less than a week, the super PAC has spent more than $294,000 on ads.<\/p>\n<p>Prosperity First reported its first buy to the tune of\u00a0$273,000\u00a0on Friday, followed by an additional\u00a0$21,000\u00a0on Monday, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.\u00a0The ads support Randy Altschuler, a wealthy Republican businessman running for Congress against Bishop in Mercer\u2019s home district of eastern Long Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/elections\/campaign-finance\/hedge-fund-honcho-seeks-oust-congressman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketplace &#8211; Super PAC\u00a0Prosperity First, which is bankrolled by wealthy hedge fund CEO\u00a0Robert Mercer, is attempting to oust Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in New York\u2019s 1st Congressional District. In less than a week, the super PAC has spent more than [&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-31231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231","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=31231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31232,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions\/31232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}