{"id":439315,"date":"2010-03-17T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79523"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:51:24","slug":"gop-did-kucinich-flip-on-health-care-to-promote-vegetarian-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439315","title":{"rendered":"GOP: Did Kucinich Flip on Health Care to Promote Vegetarian Eating?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) decision to vote “aye”<\/a> on the Senate version of health care reform, while not a huge surprise, is hard for Republicans to pin on some kind of backroom deal. Kucinich simply didn’t ask for anything more than some attention and some face time with the president. That’s put the National Republican Congressional Committee in the position of alerting reporters to a March 16 story about a healthy eating event attended by Kucinich’s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kucinich Switches Vote on Health Care<\/strong> (The New York Times<\/a>, 3\/17\/10)<\/p>\n

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Coincidence?<\/p>\n

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Michelle Obama Gets Backup From Scarlett Johansson On Healthful Eating<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that Michelle Obama has made curbing childhood obesity the rage, another effort with a similar wow factor is pressing the case for schools to provide healthful foods to replace the sugary and fatty products the first lady wants to send to the principal’s office.<\/p>\n

To publicize a bill being dropped Thursday to push school cafeteria veggies, promoters are rolling out<\/strong> dishy actress Scarlett Johansson and redheaded activist Elizabeth Kucinich to talk up the bennies of “plant-based meals.”<\/strong> (Washington Whispers, Paul Bedard, March 16, 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the email itself.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) decision to vote “aye” on the Senate version of health care reform, while not a huge surprise, is hard for Republicans to pin on some kind of backroom deal. Kucinich simply didn’t ask for anything more than some attention and some face time with the president. That’s put the National Republican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439315","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\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}