{"id":569313,"date":"2010-05-18T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78182"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:22:23","slug":"candidate-lee-whitnum-richard-blumenthal-should-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569313","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Lee Whitnum: Richard Blumenthal Should Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Blumenthal should resign because of questions about his record in the Vietnam era, says Lee Whitnum, a candidate for the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Whitnum has clashed with Blumenthal in the past regarding other issues, but she says that the Vietnam issue requires his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He needs to resign,&#8221;&nbsp;Whitnum said in a statement Tuesday. &#8220;In light of lies about his military record but more important about his role in the financial meltdown that happened right here in Wilton&#8221; at the financial products division of AIG.<\/p>\n<p>AIG has been highly criticized for&nbsp;awarding bonuses to employees after receiving federal bailout funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire AIG FP fiasco could have been prevented,&#8221; Whitnum said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t do his job and as a result, the greatest financial debacle and bailout in this recession took place right here in Wilton, Connecticut and the AIG FP guys just got bonuses &#8211; again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Blumenthal should resign because of questions about his record in the Vietnam era, says Lee Whitnum, a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Whitnum has clashed with Blumenthal in the past regarding other issues, but she says that the Vietnam issue requires his resignation. &#8220;He needs to resign,&#8221;&nbsp;Whitnum said in a statement Tuesday. &#8220;In light [&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-569313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569313","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=569313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}