{"id":570045,"date":"2010-05-19T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78221"},"modified":"2010-05-18T21:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T01:50:51","slug":"john-droney-life-has-changed-drastically-for-susan-bysiewicz-after-7-0-defeat-at-state-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570045","title":{"rendered":"John Droney: Life Has Changed Drastically For Susan Bysiewicz After 7 &#8211; 0 Defeat At State Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former state Democratic chairman John Droney says&nbsp;the State Supreme Court&#8217;s unanimous decision preventing Susan Bysiewicz from running for attorney general is a huge blow to her political career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life, as she knows it, is over,&#8221; Droney told Capitol Watch. &#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing story of self-inflicted wounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Droney predicted that Bysiewicz would have trouble running again for her current job as Secretary of the State &#8211; even though some believe that will happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think Denise Merrill and Jonathan Harris would like that,&#8221; Droney said, referring to the two leading Democratic legislators who are seeking to fill Bysiewicz&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>After the ruling, Bysiewicz said, &#8220;I am tremendously disappointed with the court&#8217;s decision overturning Judge Sheldon&#8217;s ruling, and I strongly disagree with the decision both on the eligibility and the constitutionality issue. However, I do respect the rule of law and will abide by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former state Democratic chairman John Droney says&nbsp;the State Supreme Court&#8217;s unanimous decision preventing Susan Bysiewicz from running for attorney general is a huge blow to her political career. &#8220;Life, as she knows it, is over,&#8221; Droney told Capitol Watch. &#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing story of self-inflicted wounds.&#8221; Droney predicted that Bysiewicz would have trouble running again [&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-570045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570045","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=570045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}