{"id":569309,"date":"2010-05-18T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78196"},"modified":"2010-05-18T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:16:33","slug":"lamont-staying-where-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569309","title":{"rendered":"Lamont staying where he is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ned is fully committed to running for governor,&#8221; said Lamont spokeswoman Justine Sessions.&nbsp;&#8220;He&#8217;s running to create jobs, bring new leadership to Hartford, and he&#8217;s looking forward to working with Senator Blumenthal to move Connecticut forward.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As for the&nbsp;Blumenthal matter, Lamont had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve known Dick for more than 25 years.&nbsp; He is a good friend and a dedicated public servant who works day in and day out on behalf of the people of Connecticut.&nbsp; As our Attorney General, he has been a tireless champion for Connecticut families, and as our next Senator he&#8217;ll bring that unwavering work ethic and record of results to Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ned is fully committed to running for governor,&#8221; said Lamont spokeswoman Justine Sessions.&nbsp;&#8220;He&#8217;s running to create jobs, bring new leadership to Hartford, and he&#8217;s looking forward to working with Senator Blumenthal to move Connecticut forward.&#8221; As for the&nbsp;Blumenthal matter, Lamont had this to say: &#8220;I&#8217;ve known Dick for more than 25 years.&nbsp; He is a [&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-569309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569309","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=569309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}