{"id":247685,"date":"2010-01-29T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70722"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:59:33","slug":"oops-endorsement-announcement-comes-before-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247685","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Endorsement announcement comes before endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many GOP activists, Haddam Republican Town Committee Chairman Ken Gronbach is still weighing his&nbsp;options in the U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>So he was surprised to see his name on the list of endorsees released by Rob Simmons&#8217; campaign earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Gronbach contacted the Simmons camp and told them &#8220;listen guys, I love you but I haven&#8217;t made an endorsement yet.&#8221;&nbsp;He&nbsp;says he hasn&#8217;t decided whether to back Simmons or Republican Linda McMahon.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons spokesman Raj Shah said the mix up was &#8220;a simple misunderstanding about Mr. Gronbach&#8217;s intentions and we will work hard to earn his support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many GOP activists, Haddam Republican Town Committee Chairman Ken Gronbach is still weighing his&nbsp;options in the U.S. Senate race. So he was surprised to see his name on the list of endorsees released by Rob Simmons&#8217; campaign earlier this week. Gronbach contacted the Simmons camp and told them &#8220;listen guys, I love you but [&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-247685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247685","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=247685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}