{"id":19234,"date":"2010-05-25T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19234"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:08:06","slug":"simmons-to-drop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19234","title":{"rendered":"Simmons to drop out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/2010\/05\/rob-simmons-will-drop-out-of-u.html\">Capitol Watch Blog<\/a>, the REAL Vietnam veteran in the Connecticut Senate race may be dropping out today;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rob Simmons will hold a press conference for this morning in New London to announce he&#8217;s leaving the U.S. Senate race, sources said late today.<\/p>\n<p>The former congressman and Vietnam War veteran lost the Republican convention&#8217;s endorsement on Friday to former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cryin&#8217; ass shame &#8211; I&#8217;d like to watch Blumenthal wiggle and squirm over his lies during the next six months of campaigning. <\/p>\n<p>Another thing that makes it a cryin&#8217; ass shame is that another qualified veteran gets squeezed out an election because of a self-funded candidate and the Republican party&#8217;s inclination to back millionaires over willing veterans.<\/p>\n<p>ADDED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/25\/rep-simmons-suspends-campaign-senate-connecticut\/\">Simmons has &#8220;suspended&#8221; his campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Capitol Watch Blog, the REAL Vietnam veteran in the Connecticut Senate race may &hellip; <a title=\"Simmons to drop out?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19234\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simmons to drop out?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}