{"id":12506,"date":"2012-09-23T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:20:21","slug":"boston-mayor-tom-menino-endorses-elizabeth-warren-for-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/09\/23\/boston-mayor-tom-menino-endorses-elizabeth-warren-for-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Mayor Tom Menino endorses Elizabeth Warren for US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Tome Menino made a surprisiingly good speech in announcing his endoresement of Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwa6-oa5ofs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Unlike Ray Flynn, Mayor Menino seems to have spent some time understanding where the two candidates stand on issues before making a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Flynn admitted in <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> article that he has no knowledge of how Scott Brown has actually voted and he knows nothing about Elizabeth? Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> article <strong><a title=\"The Boston Globe article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former mayor Ray Flynn adds his voice to Senate race<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flynn said he came to his conclusions about Brown based on \u201cwhat I knew about his personal life growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a nonpolitical message about the man, rather than it is about politics or ideology,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t go through his congressional record or roll call. I don\u2019t have time for that. People don\u2019t have time for that. I am interested if the guy is honest, that he has personal integrity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As Elizabeth Warren has pointed out, it is not enough to know how someone grew up.  One also has to know what lessons they learned from that experience.  She learned about how important community investment was to her success, and she wants other people to have the same chances as she did.  The Republicans, including Scott Brown, have learned, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got mine, the rest of you are on your own.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Tome Menino made a surprisiingly good speech in announcing his endoresement of Elizabeth Warren. Unlike Ray Flynn, Mayor Menino seems to have spent some time understanding where the two candidates stand on issues before making a decision. Ray Flynn admitted in The Boston Globe article that he has no knowledge of how Scott Brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26937,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions\/26937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}