{"id":729421,"date":"2010-05-18T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78229"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:46:55","slug":"words-of-support-from-two-longtime-blumenthal-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729421","title":{"rendered":"Words of support from two longtime Blumenthal friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dick Blumenthal has been my friend for more than 25 years,&#8221; Dan Malloy said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said he misspoke several times, and that he regrets it.&nbsp; I believe when the people of Connecticut measure his entire body of work against these misstatements they will put them in the proper context and move on.&nbsp; I look forward to working with him when I&#8217;m Governor and he&#8217;s a U.S. Senator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Chris Dodd, who has known Blumenthal for almost 40 years, said&nbsp;Blumenthal is&nbsp;&#8220;an honorable man who has served his state and country proudly. He is a terrific Attorney General and he will be a great United States Senator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dick Blumenthal has been my friend for more than 25 years,&#8221; Dan Malloy said. &#8220;He said he misspoke several times, and that he regrets it.&nbsp; I believe when the people of Connecticut measure his entire body of work against these misstatements they will put them in the proper context and move on.&nbsp; I look forward [&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-729421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33KR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729421","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=729421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}