{"id":548137,"date":"2010-04-30T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.77088"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:26:34","slug":"dargan-state-budget-will-not-be-passed-before-may-5-legislature-racing-toward-deadline-at-midnight-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548137","title":{"rendered":"Dargan: State Budget Will Not Be Passed Before May 5; Legislature Racing Toward Deadline At Midnight Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a veteran West Haven Democrat who often makes predictions, says&nbsp;the legislature will not reach a budget deal before the General Assembly&#8217;s mandated adjournment at midnight May 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a better chance of picking the winner of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday than that happening,&#8221; said Dargan, a longtime horse-picker who often heads up to the Saratoga Race Course during the hot days in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a veteran West Haven Democrat who often makes predictions, says&nbsp;the legislature will not reach a budget deal before the General Assembly&#8217;s mandated adjournment at midnight May 5. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a better chance of picking the winner of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday than that happening,&#8221; said Dargan, a longtime horse-picker who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548137","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}