{"id":538,"date":"2009-11-03T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/our-legislature-at-work\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:40:27","slug":"our-legislature-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/our-legislature-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Legislature at Work???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"7\"><strong>What can I say???&nbsp; <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"312\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"520\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#540169\" size=\"5\"><strong>House Minority Leader&nbsp; Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far&nbsp; right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,&nbsp; D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a&nbsp; new budget. (AP) <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#540169\" size=\"5\"><strong>The guy sitting in the row in front of these two&#8230;&nbsp; he&#8217;s on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/font><font color=\"#590170\"><strong><font color=\"#540169\">These are the folks that couldn&#8217;t get the budget out by Oct. 1,&nbsp; Seriously, we\u2019ve got a 30 day budget extension.&nbsp; Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat.&nbsp; I guess this makes it easy for the news \u2018reporters\u2019 as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago.&nbsp; And these yo-yo\u2019s will still be playing<\/font> <font color=\"#ff0000\">SOLITAIRE!!!<\/font><\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#590170\"><strong><\/strong><\/font><font size=\"5\">&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What can I say???&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; House Minority Leader&nbsp; Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far&nbsp; right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,&nbsp; D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a&nbsp; new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}