{"id":703413,"date":"2026-06-14T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703413\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:07:08","slug":"d-c-fines-lewis-george-campaign-finding-coordination-with-labor-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703413\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. fines Lewis George campaign, finding coordination with labor groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HZQJTVDONNFN5PI2THCOD4QCGE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The District\u2019s Office of Campaign Finance on Friday ordered mayoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2026\/05\/31\/rise-janeese-lewis-george-who-could-be-dcs-first-democratic-socialist-mayor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2026\/05\/31\/rise-janeese-lewis-george-who-could-be-dcs-first-democratic-socialist-mayor\/\">Janeese Lewis George<\/a> and her campaign to pay $16,000 in fines after investigators concluded her team improperly coordinated with labor unions and an independent expenditure committee that has spent about $1 million supporting her candidacy, allegations the campaign quickly denied and said it would fight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The District\u2019s Office of Campaign Finance on Friday ordered mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George and her campaign to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-703413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}