{"id":567470,"date":"2010-05-17T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78131"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T03:16:24","slug":"republicans-react-to-nytimes-story-on-blumenthals-military-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567470","title":{"rendered":"Republicans react to NYTimes story on Blumenthal&#8217;s military record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \">&#8220;It&#8217;s become increasingly clear to us over the past weeks and months as<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">we&#8217;ve researched Mr. Blumenthal in earnest that there are some deeply<br \/>disturbing disconnects between the image he&#8217;s sought to portray and<br \/>reality,&#8221; says Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon. &#8220;These are questions that will not and cannot be easily answered.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">Rob Simmons, who is a Vietnam veteran, said the following: <font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/font><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">As someone who served, I respect Dick for wearing the uniform, but I am deeply troubled by allegations that he has misrepresented his service.&nbsp; Too many have sacrificed too much to have their valor stolen in this way.&nbsp; I hope Mr. Blumenthal steps forward and forthrightly addresses the questions that have arisen about this matter.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/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\">UPDATE: And here&#8217;s what Schiff campaign manager J.R. Romano had to say: &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \">It is no surprise that a man who equates filing lawsuits with job creation would equate campground cleanup with Vietnam service.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s become increasingly clear to us over the past weeks and months as we&#8217;ve researched Mr. Blumenthal in earnest that there are some deeplydisturbing disconnects between the image he&#8217;s sought to portray andreality,&#8221; says Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon. &#8220;These are questions that will not and cannot be easily answered.&#8221; Rob Simmons, who is [&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-567470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567470","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=567470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}