{"id":526281,"date":"2010-04-13T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75941"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:15:47","slug":"blumenthal-names-campaign-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526281","title":{"rendered":"Blumenthal names campaign manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AG and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has tapped Mindy Myers, currently chief of staff for Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Myers is seen as a&nbsp;young superstar in Democratic campaign circles: At the age of 32, she&nbsp;oversaw Barack Obama&#8217;s New Hampshire campaign operation in the 2008 general election. New Hampshire was a battleground state and Myers helped deliver it for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>She also managed Whitehouse&#8217;s 2006 Senate race. Whitehouse was Rhode Island&#8217;s attorney general when he defeated&nbsp;incumbent Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mindy knows what it takes to win, and we&#8217;re pleased to have her leading our campaign team,&#8221;&nbsp;Michael Cacace,&nbsp;Blumenthal&#8217;s&nbsp;campaign chairman, said in a statement announcing Myers&#8217; appointment.<\/p>\n<p>After the election, Myers plans to return to her job in Whjitehouse&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AG and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has tapped Mindy Myers, currently chief of staff for Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Myers is seen as a&nbsp;young superstar in Democratic campaign circles: At the age of 32, she&nbsp;oversaw Barack Obama&#8217;s New Hampshire campaign operation in the 2008 general election. New Hampshire was a battleground state [&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-526281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526281","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=526281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}