{"id":521245,"date":"2010-04-08T23:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75695"},"modified":"2010-04-09T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:06:06","slug":"peter-schiff-launches-online-petition-drive-to-demand-blumenthal-sue-to-overturn-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521245","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schiff launches online petition drive to demand Blumenthal sue to overturn &#8220;Obamacare&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Conn. AG Richard Blumenthal doesn&#8217;t want to sue the federal government to block the healthcare overhaul because he is in &#8220;Washington back pocket,&#8221; Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, says on his <a href=\"http:\/\/supportpeterschiff.com\/landing\/aprilpetition\/\">website<\/a>. &#8220;But Blumenthal has a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and protect the citizens he serves, even when it means putting his personal feelings aside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Blumenthal, who is seeking the Democratic Senate nomination, has said he would have voted in favor of the healthcare bill.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In a press release announcing the petition, the Schiff campaign said it aims to &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">encourage Connecticuters to demand Attorney General Richard Blumenthal file a lawsuit against the federal government over recently passed health care legislation.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\">Connecticuters?<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conn. AG Richard Blumenthal doesn&#8217;t want to sue the federal government to block the healthcare overhaul because he is in &#8220;Washington back pocket,&#8221; Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, says on his website. &#8220;But Blumenthal has a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and protect the citizens he serves, even when it means putting [&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-521245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521245","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=521245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}