{"id":697248,"date":"2010-03-21T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74394"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:18:39","slug":"rob-russo-today-is-a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697248","title":{"rendered":"Rob Russo: Today is a bad day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">Russo, a Republican running against U.S. Rep. Jim Himes in the 4th District, said his very first task, if elected, would be to repeal the health care bill.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; \"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\">&#8220;Not only has Congress just spent a trillion dollars to harm our health care system, businesses and families, Congress failed to actually fix the problems the people had with our health care system&#8211;cost of insurance and access to our great health care,&#8221; Russo said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: -webkit-left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; \"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\">&#8220;Even worse, this was done against the will of the people. Congressman Jim Himes, you&nbsp;refused to come back and meet with the citizens and host a town hall meeting&#8211;you didn&#8217;t want to tell them you had already decided.&nbsp; Congressman<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"+0\"><font size=\"+0\">, you chose to side with Nancy Pelosi not the People and you will be held accountable for it.&nbsp; Families cannot afford the increased costs you have placed on them.&nbsp; Businesses cannot afford the tax hikes and increased premiums you have placed on them.&nbsp; And, doctors cannot afford to practice with the limits you have placed on them.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russo, a Republican running against U.S. Rep. Jim Himes in the 4th District, said his very first task, if elected, would be to repeal the health care bill. &#8220;Not only has Congress just spent a trillion dollars to harm our health care system, businesses and families, Congress failed to actually fix the problems the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-697248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VnW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697248","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\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}