{"id":320,"date":"2018-11-05T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:29:12","slug":"why-does-gavin-newsom-not-have-a-ballot-description-for-his-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Why does Gavin Newsom not have a ballot description for his candidacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason is simple: according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article219688260.html\">The Sacramento Bee<\/a>, Newsom declined to stay within campaign limits!:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Newsom, unlike his Republican opponent John Cox, declined to accept the $14.5 million general election campaign campaign spending limit for gubernatorial candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">State law requires candidates for state office to keep below expenditure limits \u2014 which vary depending on the office being sought \u2014 if they want to purchase a 250-word candidate statement in the information guide that the state sends to approximately 19 million registered voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">According to state election records, the Newsom campaign has spent $21.9 million this year as of Sept. 22. The Cox campaign, by comparison, has spent $8.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason is simple: according to The Sacramento Bee, Newsom declined to stay within campaign limits!: Newsom, unlike his Republican opponent John Cox, declined to accept the $14.5 million general election campaign campaign spending limit for gubernatorial candidates. State law requires candidates for state office to keep below expenditure limits \u2014 which vary depending on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}