{"id":693748,"date":"2010-03-17T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79490"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:31:18","slug":"massachusetts-ind-candidate-escalates-romney-mccain-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693748","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Ind. Candidate Escalates Romney-McCain Proxy War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;At least that&#8217;s what I see happening in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Yesterday, state Treasurer Tim Cahill, who&#8217;s running an independent campaign for governor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/35893650\">showily stated that<\/a> health care reform legislation would &#8220;threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years.&#8221; The GOP&#8217;s likely candidate, Charlie Baker<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/03\/17\/cahill_attacks_health_care_law\/\"> defended Massachusetts&#8217;<\/a> health care mandate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, I think, is a good time to talk about reforming it, and rethinking some of the program components. But I would not say so far it\u2019s bankrupted the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid Wilson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/romneys_home_st.php\">take<\/a> on this race &#8212; that it pits McCain staff (Cahill) against Romney staff (Baker) &#8212; looks more and more prescient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;At least that&#8217;s what I see happening in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Yesterday, state Treasurer Tim Cahill, who&#8217;s running an independent campaign for governor, showily stated that health care reform legislation would &#8220;threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years.&#8221; The GOP&#8217;s likely candidate, Charlie Baker defended Massachusetts&#8217; health care mandate. Now, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Utu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795171,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693748\/revisions\/795171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}