{"id":6117,"date":"2016-01-22T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:05:08","slug":"matthews-donates-1000-to-franchot-one-day-after-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6117","title":{"rendered":"Matthews Donated $1000 to Franchot One Day after Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot.png\" alt=\"Matthews Donation History to Franchot\" width=\"1333\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot.png 1333w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Donation-History-to-Franchot-1024x466.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\" \/><\/a><em>Matthews Donates $1000 to Franchot One Day after Endorsement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Definitely nothing illegal but the optics are not good.<\/p>\n<p>On January 11, Eighth Congressional District Candidate Kathleen Matthews announced support from Comptroller Peter Franchot (see below). The very next day she donated $1000 to Friends of Peter Franchot&#8211;the Comptroller&#8217;s campaign account (see above).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the timing looks bad. It just doesn&#8217;t look good to donate $1000 the day after receiving a big endorsement. It&#8217;s also very strange because Matthews needs every dollar she can raise for her congressional Democratic primary in April. Franchot doesn&#8217;t face another election until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The donation turns a major endorsement that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6064\">as Adam Pagnucco pointed out<\/a>, Matthews should have touted more into one with an awkward appearance that she should avoid. A surprising outcome all around from a very media-savvy candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot.png\" alt=\"Matthews Press Release about Franchot\" width=\"1323\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot.png 1323w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot-768x306.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Matthews-Press-Release-about-Franchot-1024x408.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1323px) 100vw, 1323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Announcement of Franchot&#8217;s Endorsement of Matthews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthews Donates $1000 to Franchot One Day after Endorsement Definitely nothing illegal but the optics are not good. On January 11, Eighth Congressional District Candidate Kathleen Matthews announced support from Comptroller Peter Franchot (see below). The very next day she donated $1000 to Friends of Peter Franchot&#8211;the Comptroller&#8217;s campaign account (see above). Obviously, the timing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthews Donated $1000 to Franchot One Day after Endorsement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1330],"tags":[1308,1472],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eighth-congressional-district","tag-kathleen-matthews","tag-peter-franchot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1AF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}