{"id":856,"date":"2002-08-01T18:36:45","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/simple-simon-met-a-pieman\/"},"modified":"2002-08-01T18:36:45","modified_gmt":"2002-08-02T01:36:45","slug":"simple-simon-met-a-pieman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/01\/simple-simon-met-a-pieman\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Simon met a pieman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8230;and took one in the face. Bye-bye to the Simon-for-Governor campaign, thanks to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-simon1aug01.story?null\">$78 million business scandal:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered the William E. Simon &#038; Sons firm to pay $78 million in damages for fraud and other misconduct in an investment debacle that also led to a major personal financial loss for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was nice knowing you Bill. In 2006, we&#8217;ll have Jim Brulte (R) v. Bill Lockyer (D) in the governor&#8217;s race, and it will be a prime-time, professional, bare-knuckle, no-holds-barred affair. I can hardly wait. In the meantime, Gov. Davis has my unwavering support.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and took one in the face. Bye-bye to the Simon-for-Governor campaign, thanks to this $78 million business scandal: A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered the William E. Simon &#038; Sons firm to pay $78 million in damages for fraud and other misconduct in an investment debacle that also led to a major personal financial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/01\/simple-simon-met-a-pieman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simple Simon met a pieman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-dO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}