{"id":355134,"date":"2010-02-23T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72328"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:45:02","slug":"4th-district-republican-rick-torres-picks-up-the-endorsement-of-the-connecticut-conservative-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355134","title":{"rendered":"4th District Republican Rick Torres picks up the endorsement of the Connecticut Conservative Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Torres, who fled Cuba in the 1960s and settled in Bridgeport, is running for the seat currently held by Democrat Jim Himes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Mr. Torres&nbsp;is a&nbsp;proven&nbsp;conservative leader who&nbsp;pledges to&nbsp;shrink the size of&nbsp;Government, reduce&nbsp;spending, and provide tax relief for all Americans,&#8221; Jesse Haskell, chair of the Conservative Party, said in a statement announcing the endorsement.&nbsp;&#8220;Mr. Torres&nbsp;brings&nbsp;a wealth of experience, Constitutional knowledge,&nbsp;and&nbsp;common sense solutions to the United States House of Representatives.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torres, who fled Cuba in the 1960s and settled in Bridgeport, is running for the seat currently held by Democrat Jim Himes. &#8220;Mr. Torres&nbsp;is a&nbsp;proven&nbsp;conservative leader who&nbsp;pledges to&nbsp;shrink the size of&nbsp;Government, reduce&nbsp;spending, and provide tax relief for all Americans,&#8221; Jesse Haskell, chair of the Conservative Party, said in a statement announcing the endorsement.&nbsp;&#8220;Mr. Torres&nbsp;brings&nbsp;a wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355134","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=355134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}