{"id":2382,"date":"2007-04-30T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/04\/30\/slim-jim-on-fat-budgets-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-30T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:46:00","slug":"slim-jim-on-fat-budgets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/slim-jim-on-fat-budgets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"slim jim on fat budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RjZj4EAhRlI\/AAAAAAAAAJ0\/ew0HkVdlt-I\/s1600-h\/slim%2Bjim.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RjZj4EAhRlI\/AAAAAAAAAJ0\/ew0HkVdlt-I\/s200\/slim%2Bjim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059341046197077586\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint has made combating earmarks his signature issue, drawing national attention for his efforts to end lawmakers\u2019 often anonymous funding for pet projects.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Greenville Republican is taking the radical step of pledging not to seek any earmarks \u2014 even those that would benefit South Carolina \u2014 in the fiscal 2008 appropriations bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not requesting earmarks,\u201d DeMint said in an interview. \u201cWe try to help our state pursue applications for merit-based (federal) grants, which is the way I think money should be distributed.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/426\/story\/50560.html\">read The State&#8217;s article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint has made combating earmarks his signature issue, drawing national attention for his efforts to end lawmakers\u2019 often anonymous funding for pet projects. Now, the Greenville Republican is taking the radical step of pledging not to seek any earmarks \u2014 even those that would benefit South Carolina \u2014 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}