{"id":521246,"date":"2010-04-08T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75694"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:47:59","slug":"dont-tread-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521246","title":{"rendered":"Don’t tread on them"},"content":{"rendered":"

More fallout from the Gadsden Flag flap.<\/p>\n

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“Dead wrong” is what Justin Bernier called the Capitol police department’s decision to rescind approval of the Tea Party activists’ request to fly the Don’t Tread on Me” flag.<\/p>\n
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“The authorities are dead wrong to bow to political pressure from members of the legislature and deny a legitimate request to fly the Gadsden flag over the capitol,” Bernier, a Republican running for Congress from the 5th District, said in a statement.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
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“C<\/font><\/span>onnecticut citizens have good reason to be upset when the flags of foreign countries are allowed to fly over the statehouse, but not a flag associated with our nation’s founding and with the United States Marine Corps.<\/font>  <\/font><\/span>This is more proof that the political class in Hartford is completely out of touch with the rest of us.”<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile the Family Institute of Connecticut sent an email to its supporters decrying the Capitol police department’s decision.<\/div>\n
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The email singles out Democratic state Rep. Michael Lawlor, one of many people who questioned whether it was appropriate to fly a flag that is now associated with the Tea Party movement at the Capitol, especially since the flag-raising ceremony was to have been followed by a political press conference (that event has now been scrapped, though the flag-raising will go on as planned. Tea Party activists are bringing their own flagpole.)<\/p>\n
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“It is time to stand beside our Tea Party friends — for liberty and against the likes of Rep. Lawlor,” the email says.<\/div>\n
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More fallout from the Gadsden Flag flap. “Dead wrong” is what Justin Bernier called the Capitol police department’s decision to rescind approval of the Tea Party activists’ request to fly the Don’t Tread on Me” flag. “The authorities are dead wrong to bow to political pressure from members of the legislature and deny a legitimate […]<\/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-521246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521246","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=521246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}