{"id":147,"date":"2018-01-03T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=147"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:34:46","slug":"news12-nj-exposes-attempt-by-njspca-official-phil-amato-to-deceive-nj-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/news12-nj-exposes-attempt-by-njspca-official-phil-amato-to-deceive-nj-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"News12NJ and NJ Spotlight Expose Attempt by NJSPCA to Deceive NJ Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive tonight, News 12 NJ&#8217;s Walt Kane exposes an attempt by NJSPCA official Phil Amato to deceive the NJ Assembly via a dishonest and possibly illegal email campaign, in opposition to a pending bill.\u00a0 The bill, which follows on the heels of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.gov\/sci\/pdf\/SPCA-FollowUpReport.pdf\">a scathing report<\/a><\/strong> on the NJSPCA by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, would remove the failed agency&#8217;s law enforcment authority and place it in the hands of competent, trained police officers and NJ County Prosecutors.\u00a0 Where it belongs .<\/p>\n<p>Walt exposes the NJSPCA&#8217;s email scheme<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/story\/37178129\/kiyc-njspca-officials-encouraged-sending-fake-emails-to-lawmakers\"> HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Caren Chesler of NJ Spotlight followed up with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/stories\/18\/01\/03\/desperate-njspca-urges-supporters-to-call-lawmakers-using-fake-names\/\">THIS piece<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is shameful.\u00a0 And the NJSPCA is shameless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive tonight, News 12 NJ&#8217;s Walt Kane exposes an attempt by NJSPCA official Phil Amato to deceive the NJ Assembly via a dishonest and possibly illegal email campaign, in opposition to a pending bill.\u00a0 The bill, which follows on the heels of a scathing report on the NJSPCA by the New Jersey State &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/news12-nj-exposes-attempt-by-njspca-official-phil-amato-to-deceive-nj-assembly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News12NJ and NJ Spotlight Expose Attempt by NJSPCA to Deceive NJ Assembly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[96,92,94,68,95,7,2,93,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}