{"id":8165,"date":"2011-10-04T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2011-10-04T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:40:59","slug":"meet-the-democratic-u-s-senate-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/04\/meet-the-democratic-u-s-senate-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Article and links on the WBUR website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/2011\/10\/03\/massachusetts-senate-democrats\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meet The Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates<\/strong><\/a> on the WBUR web site gives:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ahead of their first debate on Tuesday, here\u2019s a primer on the six (down from seven) candidates running in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My highly biased assessment from a quick look at the info on this web page (without following the links to more info) is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elizabeth Warren thinks &#8220;We need to be able to invent things, make things, and sell things to the rest of the world.&#8221;\u00a0 She gets this aspect of the problem, 1 point for her.<\/p>\n<p>As she has said and needs to be quoted here, companies need customers for them to<br \/>\nwant to invent things, make things,\u00a0 and sell thing.\u00a0 Capital gains taxes are not the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Herb Robinson wants to &#8220;lowering the capital gains tax&#8221; to stimulate jobs. That proves he doesn&#8217;t get it and rules him out.\u00a0 Perhaps he ought to challenge Scott Brown in a Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Khazei &#8216;\u2026Alan will use [his] experience and an \u201call hands on deck\u201d approach that leverages the public, private, and non-profit sectors to create good paying jobs and get unemployed Bay Staters back to work. \u2026&#8221; &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty platitudinous.\u00a0 At least the quote from Warren put together with other things she has said borders on the substantive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet The Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates on the WBUR web site gives: Ahead of their first debate on Tuesday, here\u2019s a primer on the six (down from seven) candidates running in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary. My highly biased assessment from a quick look at the info on this web page (without following the links [&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-8165","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\/8165","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=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}