{"id":1713,"date":"2017-12-06T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:26:08","slug":"looking-for-something-to-call-your-reps-about-may-i-suggest-mick-mulvaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/12\/looking-for-something-to-call-your-reps-about-may-i-suggest-mick-mulvaney\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Something to Call Your Reps About? May I suggest Mick Mulvaney?&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f4de;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Long story short: Mulvaney the current head of the Office of Management and Budget, and last week the President also made him acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is a little odd, since Mulvaney is on the record calling the agency a &#8220;joke&#8221; that he&#8217;d eliminate\u2014but that&#8217;s all just talk.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What&#8217;s fundamentally rotten is that <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/weekly-review-40\/\">Mulvaney received roughly half a million dollars in donations<\/a> from financial organizations that have been fined <i>muy mucho dinero<\/i> by the CFPB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;m not casting aspersions on Mulvaney or claiming he&#8217;s done\u2014or would do\u2014anything wrong; I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s a great guy, and plausibly has many good ideas that make him highly qualified to filly two essential 120-hour\/week gov&#8217;t positions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But just as a thought experiment, say you had a kid in day care, and that day care hired someone who seemed like a fine pick and totally passed the criminal background check, but had also accepted millions of dollars from a group of notorious and powerful pedophiles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would this cause you concern?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anyway, please take a minute and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/calling-your-reps-a-guide-for-the-timid-with-quick-start-and-power-user-options\/\">call your reps<\/a>, and explain that you think there is maybe a moral hazard here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1108\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tallit-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"*Record Scratch* *Freeze Frame* Yup, that's me; you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. Lemme tell ya; it all started\u2026\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tallit-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tallit.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">*Record Scratch*<br \/>*Freeze Frame*<br \/>Yup, that&#8217;s me; you&#8217;re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. Lemme tell ya; it all started\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short: Mulvaney the current head of the Office of Management and Budget, and last week the President also made him acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).\u00a0 This is a little odd, since Mulvaney is on the record calling the agency a &#8220;joke&#8221; that he&#8217;d eliminate\u2014but that&#8217;s all just talk.\u00a0 What&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/12\/looking-for-something-to-call-your-reps-about-may-i-suggest-mick-mulvaney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking for Something to Call Your Reps About? May I suggest Mick Mulvaney?&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f4de;&#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":[75],"tags":[233,232,66,234,53,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}