{"id":714587,"date":"2010-04-12T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75882"},"modified":"2010-04-12T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:18:01","slug":"a-year-makes-all-the-difference-for-merrick-alpert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714587","title":{"rendered":"A year makes all the difference for Merrick Alpert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There he was in 2009,&nbsp;elbow-to-elbow with Democratic&nbsp;power brokers at the party&#8217;s annual Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner.<\/p>\n<p>But this year, Alpert, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, plans to be a no-show. He says his decision to skip&nbsp;tonight&#8217;s $175-a-plate fundraiser at the Connecticut Convention Center is a matter of principle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;In the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with 174,000 Connecticut citizens out of work, I would rather donate 175 dollars to a soup kitchen than spend it hanging out with a bunch of political fat cats,&#8221; Alpert said in a press release announcing his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Alpert intends to donate the $175&nbsp;he would have spent on a ticket to the New London Community Meal Center, where he will help serve tonight&#8217;s dinner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There he was in 2009,&nbsp;elbow-to-elbow with Democratic&nbsp;power brokers at the party&#8217;s annual Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner. But this year, Alpert, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, plans to be a no-show. He says his decision to skip&nbsp;tonight&#8217;s $175-a-plate fundraiser at the Connecticut Convention Center is a matter of principle. &#8220;&#8221;In the worst economic crisis since the Great [&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-714587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZTB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714587","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=714587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}