{"id":17133,"date":"2022-03-03T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=17133"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:24:33","slug":"beyond-politics-democrats-former-top-house-strategist-on-the-shocking-reality-of-money-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=17133","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Politics: Democrats&#8217; former Top House Strategist on the Shocking Reality of Money in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test-bidi=\"\">In 2017 Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill \u2013 unindicted and undefeated \u2013 at the very pinnacle of politics. He was one of the top-ranking Democrats in Congress, widely respected, and on a path to even greater influence. President Bill Clinton called him \u201cone of the most thoughtful Members of Congress.\u201d \u00a0So why did he give it up? And how did the reality of Congressional fundraising factor in?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test-bidi=\"\">By the way, if you like what you hear, Congressman Israel\u2019s latest literary venture is his new bookstore in Oyster Bay, Long Island called Theodore\u2019s. You can order a range of great books online, including the two satires he penned since leaving Congress.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/democrats-former-top-house-strategist-on-the-shocking\/id1369437819?i=1000552802267\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017 Congressman Steve Israel left Capitol Hill \u2013 unindicted and undefeated \u2013 at the very pinnacle of politics. He was one of the top-ranking Democrats in Congress, widely respected, and on a path to even greater influence. President Bill Clinton called him \u201cone of the most thoughtful Members of Congress.\u201d \u00a0So why did he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyondpolitics"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/qtq80-MCLw3O.jpeg?fit=2160%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17134,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions\/17134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}