{"id":386548,"date":"2010-03-03T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.72964"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:54:49","slug":"man-bites-dog-healy-praises-himes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386548","title":{"rendered":"Man bites dog; Healy praises Himes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Republican State Party Chairman Chris Healy Wednesday commended U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-CT, for donating campaigns funds to charity that he received from disgraced Congressman Charles Rangel, D-NY,&#8221; begins the statement emailed by Healy this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Healy&#8217;s kind words for Himes are used as a cudgel to hammer Democratic Congressmen Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jim Himes made things right by giving away the Rangel money, now it&#8217;s time for Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy to step up and write some checks to charity,&#8221; said Healy. &#8220;Charlie Rangel has been shaking special interests down and spreading the money around, now it&#8217;s time to reject that corrupt money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy has already said his office is reviewing the donations he has recieved from Rangel in past election cycles and that he intends to donate the money to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney spokesman Brian Farber said Courtney is&nbsp;in the process of donating any funds he received from Rangel to charities in eastern Connecticut.&nbsp;Courtney has received a total of about $25,000 from Rangel through the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, you read that right. &#8220;Republican State Party Chairman Chris Healy Wednesday commended U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-CT, for donating campaigns funds to charity that he received from disgraced Congressman Charles Rangel, D-NY,&#8221; begins the statement emailed by Healy this afternoon. Of course, Healy&#8217;s kind words for Himes are used as a cudgel to hammer [&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-386548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386548","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=386548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}