{"id":1379,"date":"2017-06-01T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2017-06-01T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:17:45","slug":"dont-know-what-to-call-your-reps-about-today-may-i-suggest-white-house-conflicts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/06\/dont-know-what-to-call-your-reps-about-today-may-i-suggest-white-house-conflicts-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t know what to call your reps about today? May I suggest &#8220;White House conflicts of interest&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few examples moral hazards unique to the Executive Branch\u00a0ALL DRAWN FROM <strong><em>JUST<\/em> THE PAST 24 HOURS<\/strong> OF NEWS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;President Trump has given at least 16 of his staff, including chief of staff Reince Priebus and adviser Kellyanne Conway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/05\/31\/white_house_reluctantly_discloses_ethics_waivers_granted_secretly_to_trump.html\">ethics waivers<\/a> to work on issues they handled as lobbyists or in their former jobs.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/05\/31\/white_house_reluctantly_discloses_ethics_waivers_granted_secretly_to_trump.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-965 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-american-flag-waving-animated-gif-26.gif\" alt=\"usa-american-flag-waving-animated-gif-26\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Analysts say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2017\/05\/31\/530290213\/chinese-activists-detained-after-investigating-factory-making-ivanka-trump-shoes\">China&#8217;s government has not hesitated to avail itself of the back channel to the White House provided by Ivanka Trump<\/a> <\/em>[who has her shoes and other fashion items manufactured in China]<em> and her husband, Jared Kushner.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-exempts-entire-senior-staff-from-white-house-ethics-rules?source=twitter&amp;via=mobile\">President Donald Trump has exempted his entire senior staff from provisions of his own ethics rules<\/a> to allow them to work with political and advocacy groups that support the administration. \u2026\u00a0The list provides the first official glimpse at the extent to which Trump has circumvented his own ethics rules by hiring former special interest advocates of the type that he railed against on the campaign trail.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Giving your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/calling-your-reps-a-guide-for-the-timid-with-quick-start-and-power-user-options\/\">reps a call<\/a>\u00a0(click the link and scroll to &#8220;Power User Mode&#8221;) is quick, fun, and easy! Don&#8217;t miss this opportunity to prevent a violent uprising by Winter 2017!&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f4de;&#x1f4bb;\u261d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That thing where you call your Senator&#8217;s office and the receptionist expresses concern that they hadn&#8217;t heard from you in a while.&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f4de;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Erik Nelson (@SquiDaveo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquiDaveo\/status\/867349370487885825\">May 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few examples moral hazards unique to the Executive Branch\u00a0ALL DRAWN FROM JUST THE PAST 24 HOURS OF NEWS: &#8220;President Trump has given at least 16 of his staff, including chief of staff Reince Priebus and adviser Kellyanne Conway, ethics waivers to work on issues they handled as lobbyists or in their former &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/06\/dont-know-what-to-call-your-reps-about-today-may-i-suggest-white-house-conflicts-of-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t know what to call your reps about today? May I suggest &#8220;White House conflicts of interest&#8221;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,75],"tags":[77,74,66,53,40,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}