{"id":727148,"date":"2010-04-30T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.77088"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:26:34","slug":"dargan-state-budget-will-not-be-passed-before-may-5-legislature-racing-toward-deadline-at-midnight-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727148","title":{"rendered":"Dargan: State Budget Will Not Be Passed Before May 5; Legislature Racing Toward Deadline At Midnight Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a veteran West Haven Democrat who often makes predictions, says&nbsp;the legislature will not reach a budget deal before the General Assembly&#8217;s mandated adjournment at midnight May 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a better chance of picking the winner of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday than that happening,&#8221; said Dargan, a longtime horse-picker who often heads up to the Saratoga Race Course during the hot days in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Stephen Dargan, a veteran West Haven Democrat who often makes predictions, says&nbsp;the legislature will not reach a budget deal before the General Assembly&#8217;s mandated adjournment at midnight May 5. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a better chance of picking the winner of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday than that happening,&#8221; said Dargan, a longtime horse-picker who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"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-727148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727148","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\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}