{"id":2300,"date":"2009-03-16T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2009-03-16T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:16:20","slug":"simmons-makes-it-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Simmons makes it official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">To the surprise of absolutely no one, Rob Simmons says his family was unanimous in support of the decision he made weeks ago: he will run against Dodd for the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Simmons will run as a populist. If elected, he will follow his pattern as a Congressman, and be a loyal foot soldier for his right wing masters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">This race gives me the heebie-jeebies. It is eerily reminscent of the 2000 Congressional campaign when Simmons ran against Gejdenson, the only name Democrat in the District that he had a chance to beat. Sam ran a lackluster campaign. After 20 years in Washington, and a lot of close elections, he just couldn&#8217;t summon up the energy to run a first rate campaign. That, added to his unfortunate housing situation, did him in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Dodd hasn&#8217;t had a string of tough elections, but in all other respects, right down to the unfortunate housing situations, he&#8217;s in the same situation as Sam. He can beat Simmons if he starts running hard right now. If he doesn&#8217;t want to put in the time and effort, and if he doesn&#8217;t want to reconnect with those of us in the trenches, then he could do us all a favor by stepping aside and let Blumenthal wallop Simmons. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">I really have a bad feeling about this race. Dodd is a good Senator, but he&#8217;s suffering from several self inflicted wounds. It&#8217;s more important that his seat be occupied by a Democrat that that it be occupied by a Dodd.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise of absolutely no one, Rob Simmons says his family was unanimous in support of the decision he made weeks ago: he will run against Dodd for the U.S. Senate. Simmons will run as a populist. If elected, he will follow his pattern as a Congressman, and be a loyal foot soldier for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dodd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}