{"id":575721,"date":"2010-05-22T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78518"},"modified":"2010-05-22T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T14:40:55","slug":"irony-alert-political-insider-lauds-mcmahons-outsider-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575721","title":{"rendered":"Irony alert: Political insider lauds McMahon&#8217;s outsider cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astute reader pointed out the irony of Torrington mayor Ryan Bingham dissing &#8220;career politicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bingham was&nbsp;first elected at 22, fresh out of Marist College, and, like most newly minted college grads, had very little work experience under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he comes from a long line of folks who have made a career out of politics. His grandfather, Joe Ruwet,&nbsp;was a longtime state representative and his mother, Ann Ruwet, was serving in the legistaure when Bingham made his political debut.<\/p>\n<p>But in his speech yesterday seconding Linda McMahon&#8217;s senate nomination, Bingham praised&nbsp;McMahon as someone who &#8220;has not spent her life in politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astute reader pointed out the irony of Torrington mayor Ryan Bingham dissing &#8220;career politicians.&#8221; Bingham was&nbsp;first elected at 22, fresh out of Marist College, and, like most newly minted college grads, had very little work experience under his belt. Moreover, he comes from a long line of folks who have made a career out [&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-575721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575721","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=575721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}