{"id":575859,"date":"2010-05-22T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78545"},"modified":"2010-05-22T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T01:38:48","slug":"delegates-from-simsbury-say-republican-convention-had-an-energy-it-didnt-have-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575859","title":{"rendered":"Delegates from Simsbury say Republican convention had an energy it didn&#8217;t have before"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Simsbury Republican town committee member Darren Cunningham remembers a time when the party had to go begging to find enough delegates for its convention.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;There have been a lot of lean years,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t popular to run with an &#8216;R&#8217; next to your name.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Not this year, they say. There are an abundance of Republican candidates and &#8220;we had almost three people for every one delegate position,&#8221; Cunningham said.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>As the curtain draws on the 2010 Republican convention, Cunningham, 34,&nbsp;and fellow Simsbury delegate Greg Piecuch, 33,&nbsp;said they saw an energy they hadn&#8217;t seen before.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Piecuch, who is&nbsp;running for state representative from the 16th District, said he felt that energy earlier on Sunday when all the GOP legislative candidates were gathered in a room with party leaders.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Cunningham, who&nbsp;ran unsuccessfully for First Selectman last year against&nbsp;Mary Glassman, said candidates such as&nbsp;Bloomfield&#8217;s Corey Brinson, Justin Bernier and Jeff Wright of Newington are&nbsp;revitalizating the party. <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We all love Jodi Rell,&#8221; but her departure from the state&#8217;s political scene&nbsp;&#8220;is sort of the end of an era.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simsbury Republican town committee member Darren Cunningham remembers a time when the party had to go begging to find enough delegates for its convention. &nbsp; &#8220;There have been a lot of lean years,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t popular to run with an &#8216;R&#8217; next to your name.&#8221; &nbsp; Not this year, they say. There are an [&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-575859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575859","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=575859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}