{"id":571376,"date":"2010-05-19T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78309"},"modified":"2010-05-19T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T01:42:28","slug":"a-bush-endorsement-for-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571376","title":{"rendered":"A Bush endorsement for Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The Simmons camp tonight rolled out the endorsement of Jonathan Bush, brother of former President George H.W. Bush and son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \">&#8220;<\/span><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; \">My family has always believed in service above self, a value that was instilled by my father,&#8221; Jonathan Bush wrote in a letter to delegates released tonight, at the annual GOP fundraiser named for Prescott Bush.&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">&#8220;Rob understands that &#8216;public office is a public trust.&#8217; He will serve his country with honor and distinction as he has for his entire career &#8211; as a soldier, CIA official, teacher, and elected representative.&nbsp; Rob is motivated not by ambition, but by the desire to continue his life of service on behalf of the people and the country he loves,&#8221; Jonathan Bush wrote.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\">Jonathan Bush lives in Killingworth and is a delegate to the upcoming GOP convention.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, 'Sans Serif', Arial; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; \"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simmons camp tonight rolled out the endorsement of Jonathan Bush, brother of former President George H.W. Bush and son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush. &#8220;My family has always believed in service above self, a value that was instilled by my father,&#8221; Jonathan Bush wrote in a letter to delegates released tonight, at the [&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-571376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571376","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=571376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}