{"id":732516,"date":"2010-05-24T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78630"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T19:58:02","slug":"dodd-on-blumenthal-his-record-of-service-to-our-state-certainly-outweighs-his-misstatements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/732516","title":{"rendered":"Dodd on Blumenthal: &#8220;His record of service to our state certainly outweighs&#8221; his misstatements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., stressed Monday that he continues to strongly support the candidacy of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for U.S. Senate, the Courant&#8217;s Ken Gosselin reports. <\/p>\n<p>The comments came in a press conference in Hartford following a controversy last week over Blumenthal&#8217;s past statement on his military service during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has apologized for these misstatements along the way,&#8221; Dodd said. &#8220;His record of service to our state certainly outweighs the misstatements that he has acknowledged and apologized for. What ought to be important to people come November is to elect a United States senator to protect our state, stand up for it, fight for it. I&#8217;m confident Dick Blumenthal is the best individual to do that for our state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a better legacy I could have than to have Dick Blumenthal follow me in that job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., stressed Monday that he continues to strongly support the candidacy of Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for U.S. Senate, the Courant&#8217;s Ken Gosselin reports. The comments came in a press conference in Hartford following a controversy last week over Blumenthal&#8217;s past statement on his military service during the Vietnam War. &#8220;He has [&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-732516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34yM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732516","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=732516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}