{"id":575865,"date":"2010-05-22T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78536"},"modified":"2010-05-22T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:01:06","slug":"wright-nominated-for-treasurer-by-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575865","title":{"rendered":"Wright Nominated For Treasurer By GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"473\" alt=\"wright.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/wright.jpg\" width=\"768\" \/><\/span>By Daniela Altimari<\/p>\n<p>Newington Mayor Jeff Wright handily won the Republican nomination for state treasurer today, turning back a challenge from Andrew White of Ridgefield.<\/p>\n<p>Wright had initially pondered a gubernatorial bid, but the 38-year-old father of three switched to the treasurer&#8217;s race. He will face Democratic incumbent Denise Nappier.<\/p>\n<p>The state treasurer oversees the state employee pension fund and a state-run college savings plan, among other responsibilities. Wright said both of those funds are lagging behind those of other states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The treasurer must be the state&#8217;s cash cop,&#8221; Wright said during his brief acceptance speech at the Connecticut Convention Center. &#8220;We must protect and secure the state&#8217;s finances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(In photo, Newington Mayor Jeff Wright gives his wife Marina a kiss after he won the GOP endorsement for State Treasure Saturday afternoon during the Republican Convention. John Woike\/Hartford Courant)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniela Altimari Newington Mayor Jeff Wright handily won the Republican nomination for state treasurer today, turning back a challenge from Andrew White of Ridgefield. Wright had initially pondered a gubernatorial bid, but the 38-year-old father of three switched to the treasurer&#8217;s race. He will face Democratic incumbent Denise Nappier. The state treasurer oversees the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575865","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\/4003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}