{"id":806,"date":"2017-01-29T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/?p=806"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:54:17","slug":"follow-the-money-with-kathleen-warnock-todd-ricketts-and-45-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/2017\/01\/29\/follow-the-money-with-kathleen-warnock-todd-ricketts-and-45-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Money With Kathleen Warnock: Todd Ricketts and 45 Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathleenwarnock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-slimstat-clicked=\"false\" data-slimstat-type=\"0\" data-slimstat-tracking=\"true\" data-slimstat-callback=\"false\">Kathleen Warnock<\/a> is a playwright, editor, and journalist. This is a repost of a series she is researching and posting on Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It took about 5 minutes of Googling for me to discover that:<\/p>\n<p>45 Committee is a PAC that spent $21 million for Trump\/against Hillary. They are currently running ads for the confirmation of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Ricketts (son of the founder of Ameritrade, and on the board of the Chicago Cubs) was originally <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/nevertrump?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=10154449712949315\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">nevertrump<\/span><\/span><\/a> but joined 45 Committee as a donor &amp; fundraiser in the last few months of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been appointed as Deputy Secretary of Commerce by Bizarro President.<\/p>\n<p>Also involved in the 45 Committee is LV billionaire Sheldon Adelson:\u00a0<a class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.factcheck.org%2F2016%2F11%2Ffuture4545committee%2F&amp;h=ATOtRmZHb6myhHCabuDw4dl032Ck3ZW6ZXuesNh5DRpAP5hraNUfopHHXDZzgyui1nTfDcLkg4W6kJTtZscj6k_0UqjwFAuKvnbX07DjlRNCUZrga0VAuEesanZsMdxaVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2016\/11\/future4545committee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Warnock is a playwright, editor, and journalist. This is a repost of a series she is researching and posting on Facebook. It took about 5 minutes of Googling for me to discover that: 45 Committee is a PAC that spent $21 million for Trump\/against Hillary. They are currently running ads for the confirmation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/2017\/01\/29\/follow-the-money-with-kathleen-warnock-todd-ricketts-and-45-committee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Follow the Money With Kathleen Warnock: Todd Ricketts and 45 Committee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theworldisaterribleplace.com\/ohcrap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}