{"id":12708,"date":"2022-07-22T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/former-house-speaker-to-lead-government-affairs-for-prisma-health\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:49:27","slug":"former-house-speaker-to-lead-government-affairs-for-prisma-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-house-speaker-to-lead-government-affairs-for-prisma-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Former House Speaker to lead government affairs for Prisma Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On news of Jay Lucas&#8217; appointment as senior vice president for government affairs at Prisma Health System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/former-house-speaker-to-lead-government-affairs-for-prisma-health\/40681899\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Taggart Houck reached out to Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen. The politics and international affairs professor said the move by public officials into private sector government affairs roles is not uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Businesses have interests and other institutions have interests and it&#8217;s in their interest to get the best connections and to find people who know the system and can work the system for them,&#8221; Nelsen said. &#8220;Institutions that have more money than others will get more connections,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas, former South Carolina Speaker of the House, will assume his new role July 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On news of Jay Lucas&#8217; appointment as senior vice president for government affairs at Prisma Health System, WYFF News 4&#8217;s Taggart Houck reached out to Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[1535,1536,1537,1538],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-prisma-health-system","tag-private-sector","tag-public-officials","tag-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}