{"id":707362,"date":"2010-04-01T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75182"},"modified":"2010-04-01T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:58:36","slug":"merrick-alperts-1q-haul-12326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/707362","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Alpert&#8217;s 1Q haul: $12,326"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystic businessman and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate says he recieved 95 donations &#8212; more than 90 percent of them from Connecticut residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is on behalf of the average Connecticut citizen that I have been working to ensure that a strong, progressive Democrat keeps Connecticut&#8217;s open Senate seat in November,&#8221; Alpert said in an email announcing his fundraising total. &#8220;And it precisely these concerned citizens and their small dollar contributions that make a genuine grassroots campaign like ours successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alpert says none of his contributions came from political action committees. The average donation was about $129 and 63 percent came in via his website.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mystic businessman and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate says he recieved 95 donations &#8212; more than 90 percent of them from Connecticut residents. &#8220;It is on behalf of the average Connecticut citizen that I have been working to ensure that a strong, progressive Democrat keeps Connecticut&#8217;s open Senate seat in November,&#8221; Alpert said in [&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-707362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Y14","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707362","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=707362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}