{"id":71,"date":"2005-03-15T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/delay-delights-delottery\/"},"modified":"2005-03-15T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T18:34:49","slug":"delay-delights-delottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/delay-delights-delottery\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLay Delights DeLottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>Boston Globe<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2005\/03\/13\/donations_tied_to_delay_trip\/\">Donations Tied to Delay Trip<\/a>.  An Indian tribe and a gambling services company made donations to a Washington public policy group that covered most of the cost of a $70,000 trip to Britain by House majority leader Tom DeLay, his wife, two aides, and two lobbyists in mid-2000, two months before DeLay helped kill legislation opposed by the tribe and the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/7719.shtml\">eLottery contracts<\/a> to the site, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/elottery\/coeur-dalene.svc.1995.01.16.shtml\">Management Agreement for the National Indian Lottery<\/a>.  I can understand the Korea-US Exchange Council paying DeLay to take a trip to South Korea on a fact-finding mission, but what&#8217;s the connection between Indian gambling and Great Britain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: Donations Tied to Delay Trip. An Indian tribe and a gambling services company made donations to a Washington public policy group that covered most of the cost of a $70,000 trip to Britain by House majority leader Tom DeLay, his wife, two aides, and two lobbyists in mid-2000, two months before DeLay helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-buzz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}