{"id":108371,"date":"2025-07-31T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/groups-spent-more-than-9-million-influencing-legislators\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2028-01-24T08:02:32","slug":"groups-spent-more-than-9-million-influencing-legislators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/07\/31\/groups-spent-more-than-9-million-influencing-legislators\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Groups Spent More Than $9  Million Influencing Legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Marshall knew that he was beat. The vape shop owner-turned-state lawmaker  had been in plenty of political  scrapes over nicotine products during his tenure at the Montana Legislature, but this time was different.<br \/>\n\t  As chair of the House Human  Services Committee in the 2025 session, he\u2019d heard from both Big Nicotine and what the Republican from Hamilton categorically refers to as the \u201corgan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109102,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108371\/revisions\/109102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108371"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=108371"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=108371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}