{"id":243399,"date":"2010-01-28T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70637"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:34:02","slug":"former-u-s-ambassador-tom-foley-unveils-60-second-tv-ad-touts-experience-as-business-executive-for-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243399","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Ambassador Tom Foley Unveils 60-Second TV Ad; Touts Experience As Business Executive For 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley is touting his experience as a business executive in a new, 60-second television commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Foley is one of three Republicans who are highlighting&nbsp;their financial&nbsp;expertise in the run for the GOP nomination. Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele created an information technology company that now operates in more than 30 states that campaign spokesman Christopher Cooper says allows Fedele to match his business credentials against anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s the only one&#8221; in the race&nbsp;who has both extensive business and governmental experience, Cooper said of Fedele.<\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday, longtime business executive R. Nelson &#8220;Oz&#8221; Griebel officially threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination. He has served for the past nine years as president and CEO of the MetroHartford Alliance, the regional chamber of commerce that is a major voice on economic development. Griebel has spent his entire career in the private sector and is now running for governor at the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>Foley&#8217;s commercial is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AmasjJs8s3c&amp;feature=player_embedded\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AmasjJs8s3c&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/a>#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley is touting his experience as a business executive in a new, 60-second television commercial. Foley is one of three Republicans who are highlighting&nbsp;their financial&nbsp;expertise in the run for the GOP nomination. Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele created an information technology company that now operates in more than 30 states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243399","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}