{"id":18556,"date":"2021-04-28T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2021-04-28T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:26:26","slug":"buddy-roemer-and-the-young-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/buddy-roemer-and-the-young-turks\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Roemer and The Young Turks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April 2014, Buddy Roemer became a partner at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Young_Turks\">The Young Turks<\/a>, an online progressive news network founded and run by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cenk_Uygur\">Cenk Uygur<\/a>. Roemer&#8217;s firm &#8211; Roemer, Robinson, Melville &amp; Co, LLC &#8211; invested $4 million into the company. According to Uygur, the two met and bonded over their shared support of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_finance_reform\">campaign finance reform<\/a>, an issue that both Uygur and Roemer support and have spoken about extensively for many years.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Roemer#cite_note-46\">[46]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0According to their investment agreement, Roemer&#8217;s firm is granted a seat on The Young Turks&#8217; advisory board, but does not enjoy editorial or content control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(wikipedia.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2014, Buddy Roemer became a partner at\u00a0The Young Turks, an online progressive news network founded and run by\u00a0Cenk Uygur. Roemer&#8217;s firm &#8211; Roemer, Robinson, Melville &amp; Co, LLC &#8211; invested $4 million into the company. According to Uygur, the two met and bonded over their shared support of\u00a0campaign&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/buddy-roemer-and-the-young-turks\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18557,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/18557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}