{"id":20387,"date":"2013-06-14T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20387"},"modified":"2013-06-14T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:30:14","slug":"us-military-can-keep-subsidizing-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/us-military-can-keep-subsidizing-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Can Keep Subsidizing NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Betty McCollum (D &#8211; MN) has suffered another setback in her efforts to end military waste, as her bill to ban military subsidies for NASCAR and professional wrestling <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/06\/14\/government-sponsorships-amendment\">was defeated<\/a> in a vote of <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2013\/roll231.xml\">134-290<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, McCollum noted that $26.5 million in funding from the National Guard to Dale Earnhardt Jr. resulted in 20 &#8220;qualified&#8221; candidates for the guard, and none of them actually joined. At the time McCollum <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/05\/18\/house-ends-militarys-nascar-sponsorships\/\">managed to get the funding<\/a> pulled, but after NASCAR expressed outrage at the decision it was reinstated. This year the overall expense was $53 million, according to McCollum, who noted that they got no recruits once again. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Richard Hudson (R &#8211; NC) represents a district with a major NASCAR track and spearheaded opposition to the bill, saying that pulling military subsidies from the sport amounted to &#8220;stealing from our nation&#8217;s military&#8221; somehow. He insisted that the increase in the size of the military proved the funding <a href=\"http:\/\/hudson.house.gov\/press-releases\/hudson-defeats-an-irresponsible-amendment-that-would-cripple-national-guard-recruitment\/#.UbvfUVPso0w\">must be working somehow<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Hudson went on to claim that you &#8220;can&#8217;t put a price on&#8221; having Dale Jr. wearing a jacket that says &#8220;National Guard&#8221; on it, though clearly Dale Jr. has been able to do so, and that price is tens of millions of dollars annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Betty McCollum (D &#8211; MN) has suffered another setback in her efforts to end military waste, as her bill to ban military subsidies for NASCAR and professional wrestling was defeated in a vote of 134-290. Last year, McCollum noted that $26.5 million in funding from the National Guard to Dale Earnhardt Jr. resulted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20388,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions\/20388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}