{"id":3710,"date":"2019-03-19T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:22:48","slug":"breaking-news-commissioner-massa-eddie-holbrook-caught-red-handed-taking-big-gambling-money-from-out-of-state-campaign-donor-with-ties-to-gambling-and-las-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2019\/03\/19\/breaking-news-commissioner-massa-eddie-holbrook-caught-red-handed-taking-big-gambling-money-from-out-of-state-campaign-donor-with-ties-to-gambling-and-las-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News!!!   Commissioner \u201cMassa\u201d Eddie Holbrook caught red-handed taking big \u201cgambling money\u201d from out of state campaign donor with ties to gambling and Las Vegas!!!   $68,000 + spent on failed re-election campaign   Report by Robert A. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>Massa Eddie Holbrook raised and spent over $68,000 on his 2018 re-election campaign for a County Commissioner\u2019s job that pays about $12,000 per year.  Such spending was many times more that all his opponents spent, all put together.  But don\u2019t believe me, Massa\u2019s campaign financial reports are online on the Cleveland County Board of Elections website.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you dare go there and look it up, you will see that 17 donors to Massa Eddie donated $1,000 or more to Massa.  Including a large donation from an out of state gambling promoter with ties to Las Vegas.  Look it up, it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n<p>I am in the process of \u201cconnecting the dots and following the money\u201d regarding the Catawba Casino that has recently re-ignited the news headlines.  The details of Massa Eddie\u2019s financial wheeling and dealing, as well as many of those 17 largest Holbrook donors appear to be large donors to US Senators Lindsay Graham of South Carolina and Thom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina.  All of which just sponsored a bill to promote gambling at the Catawba Casino in Cleveland County.<\/p>\n<p>Another lesson-learned from Holbrook\u2019s massive spending that still resulted in disgrace and defeat is that money won\u2019t necessarily buy an election in Cleveland County anymore.  That was a good thing.  But it took a major turnout on election day to pull this off.  As well as informed voters.  I look to the 2020 elections, a Presidential election year, and predict another massive turnout of informed and misinformed voters.  I certainly plan to do my part in providing information regarding voting records, etc. or the 2020 candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, stay tuned for the rest of this story and more.  This story is just now getting started.  And YOU will be the first to know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massa Eddie Holbrook raised and spent over $68,000 on his 2018 re-election campaign for a County Commissioner\u2019s job that pays about $12,000 per year. Such spending was many times more that all his opponents spent, all put together. But don\u2019t believe me, Massa\u2019s campaign financial reports are online on the Cleveland County Board of Elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cgg-investigations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}