{"id":37373,"date":"2013-08-14T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37373"},"modified":"2013-08-14T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:01:41","slug":"pro-cuccinelli-pac-gets-500000-donation-from-new-york-hedge-fund-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/pro-cuccinelli-pac-gets-500000-donation-from-new-york-hedge-fund-executive.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Cuccinelli PAC gets $500,000 donation from New York hedge fund executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; A New York hedge fund titan has kicked in $500,000 to boost the campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II against businessman Terry McAuliffe, the latest sign that the Virginia governor\u2019s race will be a magnet for outside cash.<\/p>\n<p>Robert L. Mercer, the co-chief executive of the East Setauket, N.Y-based hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, gave a half-million dollars last week to Virginia Principles Fund, a newly-formed political action committee. The PAC, based in Chesapeake, has reported no other donors so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/pro-cuccinelli-pac-gets-500000-donation-from-new-york-hedge-fund-executive\/2013\/08\/13\/6062f666-0479-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; A New York hedge fund titan has kicked in $500,000 to boost the campaign of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II against businessman Terry McAuliffe, the latest sign that the Virginia governor\u2019s race will be a magnet for [&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-37373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37373","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=37373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37374,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37373\/revisions\/37374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}