{"id":44514,"date":"2013-09-09T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=44514"},"modified":"2015-11-01T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T20:16:44","slug":"richard-windsors-40k-official-portrait-spurs-ego-act-banning-taxpayer-funding-lisa-jackson-can-borrow-my-camera-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/09\/richard-windsors-40k-official-portrait-spurs-ego-act-banning-taxpayer-funding-lisa-jackson-can-borrow-my-camera-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Windsor&#8217;s $40K official portrait spurs EGO Act banning taxpayer funding &#8212; &#8216;Lisa Jackson can borrow my camera for free&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews.com reports:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Louisiana Republican has introduced a bill to put an end to taxpayers footing the bill for official, commissioned portraits of Washington\u2019s movers and shakers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles Times, Rep. Bill Cassidy introduced the legislation \u2013 called the EGO Act, or Eliminating Government-funded Oil Painting \u2013 after reports the Environmental Protection Agency spent nearly $40,000 for former administrator Lisa Jackson\u2019s portrait.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lisa Jackson can borrow my camera for free,&#8221; he suggested as an alternative, the paper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/08\/picture-this-time-for-officials-to-pay-for-their-own-portraits-lawmaker-says\/#ixzz2eOqbRltq\">Read more&#8230; <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews.com reports:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-bzY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}