{"id":5617,"date":"2012-09-18T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2012-09-18T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:03:01","slug":"webster-bank-pushes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=5617","title":{"rendered":"Webster Bank Pushes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit of pushback from the Webster Bank, whose reputation has been sullied by McMahon\u2019s fictitious claims about Chris Murphy:<\/p>\n

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Fed up over being dragged into the U.S. Senate race by Republican Linda McMahon, Webster Bank officials are publicly demanding her campaign retract allegations the institution is involved in a sweetheart deal with her opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re concerned about our reputation and will take whatever steps we need to protect our reputation,\u201d Robert Guenther, Webster\u2019s vice president of public affairs, said in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Guenther said the McMahon campaign should admit it was wrong and retract the accusations leveled in the media for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(via Greenwich Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Will get the same press play the baseless charges have received?<\/p>\n

It’s a funny world, or at least a funny country. The rules really are different for Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit of pushback from the Webster Bank, whose reputation has been sullied by McMahon\u2019s fictitious claims about Chris Murphy: Fed up over being dragged into the U.S. Senate race by Republican Linda McMahon, Webster Bank officials are publicly demanding her campaign retract allegations the institution is involved in a sweetheart deal with her opponent, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linda-mcmahon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/5618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}