{"id":30562,"date":"2024-03-14T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30562"},"modified":"2024-03-14T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:21:57","slug":"vinson-explains-congress-members-use-of-the-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/vinson-explains-congress-members-use-of-the-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson explains Congress members&#8217; use of the &#8216;frank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Danielle Vinson is tapped for an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/politics\/william-timmons-adam-morgan-congress-sc-billboard-ads-mailers-franking\/article_843e6928-db17-11ee-8faf-e7cfdff45251.html\">The Post and Courier &#8211; Greenville<\/a> about the practice of &#8220;franking&#8221; among members of Congress. The centuries-old practice allows congressmen and congresswomen to use taxpayer funds for messaging, but not for campaigning. Vinson, a politics and international affairs professor, said the frank is a useful tool to keep names of candidates fresh in the minds of voters during primary season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article by David Ferrara, Danielle Vinson gets frank about use of the &#8216;frank&#8217; among House members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,2232],"tags":[597,2626,2625,2627],"class_list":["post-30562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville","tag-congress","tag-ethics","tag-franking","tag-political-messaging"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30562","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=30562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}