{"id":575723,"date":"2010-05-22T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78512"},"modified":"2010-05-22T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:13:07","slug":"lamont-is-ready-for-fiesty-battle-democrats-gavel-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575723","title":{"rendered":"Lamont Is Ready For Fiesty Battle; Democrats Gavel In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be early in the morning, but Democrats are energized, including Ned Lamont, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. <\/p>\n<p>Lamont said he is ready for a fiesty,&nbsp;uphill battle. He said he understands that he&nbsp;is the challenger at this year&#8217;s convention, despite winning over some Democrats in a U.S. Senate race against incumbent Joe Lieberman in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the outsider,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s deja vu all over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lamont lost&nbsp;the 2006&nbsp;primary to Lieberman. This year, he is up against&nbsp;Dan Malloy for the&nbsp;Democratic gubernatorial endorsement. <\/p>\n<p>The state Democratic convention is being held at the Connecticut Expo Center.&nbsp;Party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo&nbsp;called&nbsp;today&#8217;s&nbsp;meeting to order shortly after 9 a.m. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be early in the morning, but Democrats are energized, including Ned Lamont, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Lamont said he is ready for a fiesty,&nbsp;uphill battle. He said he understands that he&nbsp;is the challenger at this year&#8217;s convention, despite winning over some Democrats in a U.S. Senate race against incumbent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575723","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\/5513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}