{"id":529114,"date":"2010-04-15T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.76130"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:28:27","slug":"residents-call-for-change-at-tax-day-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529114","title":{"rendered":"Residents Call For Change At Tax Day Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Upset residents came to the Capitol Thursday to rally for change. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">They said they want less government, new leadership and more say. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thursday&#8217;s tax day &#8220;tea party&#8221; drew a crowd of about 1,200. They were an enthusiastic group. Some held American flags; other had yellow &#8220;Don&#8217;t tread on me&#8221; flags. They recited the Pledge of Allegiance loudly and proudly, and they were eager to talk about why they wanted to see changes in government. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Hartford tea party, organized by the Hartford Tea Party Patriots,&nbsp;was one&nbsp;of five&nbsp;tea parties scheduled in Connecticut Thursday &#8212; the last day to file taxes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Arthur Caisse Jr., of Wolcott, held a sign in one hand and a dog leash in the other. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;We want to take America back,&#8221; he said as he navigated Fonze, his Maltese through the crowd.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Like his owner, Fonze also had a sign. It read, &#8220;Remember November,&#8221; and it was stapled to his sweater.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Nearby, Louiza and Jerry Martinez, of Winchester, stood quietly in the sun, surveying the crowd and listening to the speakers. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;It&#8217;s regular people who just have had enough,&#8221; Jerry Martinez said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upset residents came to the Capitol Thursday to rally for change. They said they want less government, new leadership and more say. Thursday&#8217;s tax day &#8220;tea party&#8221; drew a crowd of about 1,200. They were an enthusiastic group. Some held American flags; other had yellow &#8220;Don&#8217;t tread on me&#8221; flags. They recited the Pledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529114","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\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}