{"id":409563,"date":"2010-03-09T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73388"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:33:04","slug":"peter-schiff-becomes-a-player-draws-knives-from-the-simmons-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409563","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schiff becomes a player; draws knives from the Simmons camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, political observers have been lauding Schiff&#8217;s&nbsp;performance in last week&#8217;s debate. The broker and author from Weston managed to steal the spotlight from what had previously been cast as two-person, knock-down&nbsp;GOP brawl between Rob Simmons and Linda McMahon.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday came confirmation that Schiff might be a player after all. As noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyructions.com\/simmons-opens-a-second-front\/\">Kevin Rennie<\/a>, the Simmons camp circulated&nbsp;what could be its first critique of the Schiff campaign: a copy of Mark Pazniokas&#8217; detail-rich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctmirror.org\/story\/schiff-serves-tea-party-bullion-and-politics\">profile<\/a> in the CT Mirror, with special emphasis on Schiff&#8217;s&nbsp;statement that he agrees with his father, Irwin, about the income tax.&nbsp;Irwin Schiff is currently in federal prison for failing to pay his taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff knew it was coming: way back in August, when he sat down with me for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/ctpolitics\/hc-schiff-crisis-0823.artaug23,0,6188214.story?page=1\">lengthy interview <\/a>at his house, Schiff predicted his&nbsp;father would probably become a campaign issue. &#8220;&#8221;My dad didn&#8217;t lie about anything,&#8221; Schiff says. &#8220;He told the government he wasn&#8217;t paying his taxes and here&#8217;s why. . . . The worst you can say about my dad was that he was mistaken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Schiff, unlike his dad, pays his taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, political observers have been lauding Schiff&#8217;s&nbsp;performance in last week&#8217;s debate. The broker and author from Weston managed to steal the spotlight from what had previously been cast as two-person, knock-down&nbsp;GOP brawl between Rob Simmons and Linda McMahon. Yesterday came confirmation that Schiff might be a player after all. As noted by [&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-409563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409563","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=409563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}