{"id":575866,"date":"2010-05-22T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78534"},"modified":"2010-05-22T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:26:25","slug":"democrats-react-to-the-garcia-harris-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575866","title":{"rendered":"Democrats React To The Garcia-Harris Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meriden Democratic town committee Chairwoman Mildred Torres-Ferguson said four Meriden delegates had supported Gerry Garcia because Meriden is a diverse city. When Torres-Ferguson heard about the deal made between Garcia and Jonathan Harris, she said she demanded to know whether Garcia would ask his supporters to vote for a specific candidate, or whether they would be free to vote their conscience. Many were upset that Garcia asked them to release their votes to Harris, Torres-Ferguson said.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“They were Denise voters to begin with,” she said, referring to House Majority Leader Denise Merrill, who eventually won the party’s endorsement for secretary of the state.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mark LaPlaca, chairman of the Democratic town committee in Mansfield, was excited to see Merrill, who is from his hometown, accept the endorsement Saturday, saying that the long-time lawmaker showed great political strength by beating her opponents in a close race.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“She was able to beat both of them essentially,” LaPlaca said. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Harris said he has already signed the papers, saying that he will primary. It was a great race, and his campaign worked hard, he said, adding that he came into Saturday as strong as possible. The deal with Garcia was reached during the voting, Harris said.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“It just sort of happened,” he said. “In the heat of the battle, we were able to talk.”    <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meriden Democratic town committee Chairwoman Mildred Torres-Ferguson said four Meriden delegates had supported Gerry Garcia because Meriden is a diverse city. When Torres-Ferguson heard about the deal made between Garcia and Jonathan Harris, she said she demanded to know whether Garcia would ask his supporters to vote for a specific candidate, or whether they would […]<\/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-575866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575866","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=575866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}