{"id":456959,"date":"2010-03-21T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74392"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:10:52","slug":"caligiuri-pledges-more-responsible-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456959","title":{"rendered":"Caligiuri pledges &#8220;more responsible leadership&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; \">&#8220;Chris Murphy did not vote for the meaningful health care reforms we need &#8211; he voted for significant tax increases, new entitlement programs, an unconstitutional individual mandate, Medicare cuts, and premium rate increases for seniors,&#8221; said Sam Caligiuri, a Republican running against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in the 5th District.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"'Times New Roman', serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; \">&#8220;Sadly, this vote was hardly out of character for Murphy as he approaches a record of saying &#8216;yes&#8217; to Nancy Pelosi 99% of the time.&nbsp; Add this vote to his support for cap and trade, the budget busting stimulus bill, and the first House-passed public option health care bill, and you get a Congressman who seems incapable of understanding the current economic crisis or how to solve it.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"'Times New Roman', serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"'Times New Roman', serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; \">&#8220;In just three short years, Murphy has been completely absorbed by the increasingly out of touch Pelosi-led majority.&nbsp; I look forward to bringing more responsible, responsive leadership to voters in the Fifth District, and taking on the fight to repeal the most disastrous parts of this bill.&nbsp; Given the policies Murphy has supported in the past three years, we literally cannot afford to send him to Washington for another two years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chris Murphy did not vote for the meaningful health care reforms we need &#8211; he voted for significant tax increases, new entitlement programs, an unconstitutional individual mandate, Medicare cuts, and premium rate increases for seniors,&#8221; said Sam Caligiuri, a Republican running against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in the 5th District. &#8220;Sadly, this vote was hardly [&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-456959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456959","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=456959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}