{"id":724,"date":"2017-03-16T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/03\/16\/activist-trend-transportation-funding-bill-sparks-no-tax-activists\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:42:00","slug":"activist-trend-transportation-funding-bill-sparks-no-tax-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/activist-trend-transportation-funding-bill-sparks-no-tax-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Trend. Transportation Funding Bill Sparks No Tax Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>The transportation funding gap:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The proposed funding mechanism:<\/strong>\u00a0Asking for voter approval for a sales tax to fund\u00a0$3.5 billion for\u00a0transportation bond funding via an\u00a0increase of 0.62%<\/p>\n<p><strong>The activists:<\/strong>\u00a0Americans for Prosperity\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The activist target:<\/strong>\u00a04 Republican legislators<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Response from the Denver Editorial Board:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/03\/15\/sen-kevin-grantham-is-a-statesman-for-standing-up-for-colorado-transportation\/\"><span class=\"dfm-title optimizely-2573790\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;\">Sen. Kevin Grantham is a statesman for standing up for Colorado transportation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradostatesman.com\/americans-prosperity-targets-four-gop-senators-transportation-funding-legislation\/\">Colorado Statesman |\u00a0Americans for Prosperity targets four GOP senators over transportation funding legislation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>The transportation funding gap:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The proposed funding mechanism:<\/strong>\u00a0Asking for voter approval for a sales tax to fund\u00a0$3.5 billion for\u00a0transportation bond funding via an\u00a0increase of 0.62%<\/p>\n<p><strong>The activists:<\/strong>\u00a0Americans for Prosperity\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The activist target:<\/strong>\u00a04 Republican legislators<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Response from the Denver Editorial Board:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/03\/15\/sen-kevin-grantham-is-a-statesman-for-standing-up-for-colorado-transportation\/\"><span class=\"dfm-title optimizely-2573790\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;\">Sen. Kevin Grantham is a statesman for standing up for Colorado transportation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradostatesman.com\/americans-prosperity-targets-four-gop-senators-transportation-funding-legislation\/\">Colorado Statesman |\u00a0Americans for Prosperity targets four GOP senators over\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}