{"id":459289,"date":"2010-03-22T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74467"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:02:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:02:23","slug":"rick-torres-jim-himes-has-betrayed-the-people-of-this-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459289","title":{"rendered":"Rick Torres: Jim Himes has &#8220;betrayed the people of this district&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Torres, a Republican running in the 4th District against incumbent Democrat Jim Himes, took Himes to task for his support of the health care bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Jim Himes has betrayed the people of this district with his vote,&#8221; Torres said in a statement.&nbsp; &#8220;The public is outraged at the fiscal chicanery which has not honestly portrayed the costs of the bill.&nbsp; And they are stunned at the arrogance of the Congress in the dishonest process they have utilized to pass this legislation.&nbsp; At a time when our country is suffering through a severe and devastating recession, Himes is casting a vote which will hurt the ability of our economy to create new jobs.&#8221;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 9pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Torres denounced the bill, saying it is chock full of &#8220;new middle-class taxes and government spending, numerous federal boards and bureaucracies, mandates and penalties, an entitlement expansion&#8230;unprecedented taxpayer funding of abortion&#8230;[and] flagrant inequities: special back-room deals at the expense of Connecticut taxpayers for Florida, Nebraska, and Louisiana.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Torres, a Republican running in the 4th District against incumbent Democrat Jim Himes, took Himes to task for his support of the health care bill. &#8220;Jim Himes has betrayed the people of this district with his vote,&#8221; Torres said in a statement.&nbsp; &#8220;The public is outraged at the fiscal chicanery which has not honestly [&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-459289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459289","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=459289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}