{"id":713497,"date":"2010-04-09T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/my-news-cullerton\/913-sen-president-john-cullertons-chicago-tribune-op-ed-response-to-320-editorial"},"modified":"2010-04-09T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:28:04","slug":"sen-president-john-cullerton%e2%80%99s-chicago-tribune-op-ed-response-to-320-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713497","title":{"rendered":"Sen. President John Cullerton\u2019s Chicago Tribune Op-Ed: Response to 3\/20 Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"240\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/biopics\/p-cullerton.jpg?resize=240%2C336\" \/>On March 20, 2010, the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:city><br \/>\n<st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> Tribune crafted and published an editorial opinion that, in part, accuses Illinois Senate President John Cullerton for a strategy of \u201cdelay and deny\u201d when it comes to the most pressing issues facing our state.&nbsp; This editorial is one of a constant series from the Tribune that neglects to reasonably consider or credit the efforts of lawmakers who seek to find common ground to achieve economic and budget solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Accusations that Democratic legislators are doing nothing to address the serious challenges facing<br \/>\n<st1:state><br \/>\n<st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> are matters of opinion.&nbsp; The Tribune has refused to publish the full response.&nbsp; In addition, the Tribune indicated that it will not publish a response that says the March 20<sup>th<\/sup> editorial was \u201criddled with inaccuracies.\u201d&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cullerton\u2019s full response has been posted here.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 2010, the Chicago Tribune crafted and published an editorial opinion that, in part, accuses Illinois Senate President John Cullerton for a strategy of \u201cdelay and deny\u201d when it comes to the most pressing issues facing our state.&nbsp; This editorial is one of a constant series from the Tribune that neglects to reasonably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"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-713497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZC1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713497","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\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}