{"id":231943,"date":"2010-01-25T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70386"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:01:42","slug":"sam-caligiuri-nabs-n-b-mayor-tim-stewarts-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231943","title":{"rendered":"Sam Caligiuri nabs N.B. Mayor Tim Stewart&#8217;s support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sam is exactly the right candidate our district needs to send to Washington at such a critical time,&#8221; Stewart said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He understands the need for fiscal responsibility, and is not afraid to do the belt tightening the federal budget desperately needs.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Caligiuri, a Republican from Waterbury, is running for Congress from the 5th District. New Britain is one of the district&#8217;s population centers, along with Waterbury, Danbury and Meriden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As mayor of one of our district&#8217;s biggest and most diverse cities, I know what the broad spectrum of voters are looking for in a candidate,&#8221; Stewart said. &#8220;Winning candidates need a record of making tough budget decisions and keeping more money in taxpayer pockets. Sam has that record, which is why I am enthusiastic about his candidacy and proud to stand behind him.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In addition to Caligiuri, Republicans Justin Bernier, Dan Carter, Mark Greenberg, Kie Westby are running for the seat, which is currently held by Democrat Chris Murphy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sam is exactly the right candidate our district needs to send to Washington at such a critical time,&#8221; Stewart said in a statement. &#8220;He understands the need for fiscal responsibility, and is not afraid to do the belt tightening the federal budget desperately needs.&#8221; Caligiuri, a Republican from Waterbury, is running for Congress from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}