{"id":2098,"date":"2005-03-26T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2018-07-03T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:16:50","slug":"2098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/26\/2098\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Cardetti Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jack Cardetti, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, said Blunt&#8217;s budget cuts would hurt children, older adults and vulnerable people who lack lobbyists to protect their interests in the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s especially ravaged the Missouri Division of Youth Services, a national model for how to take care of juvenile offenders and then turn them into productive citizens,&#8221; Cardetti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s he talking about?  My governor, Matt Blunt, has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/A9E3F58E4702886A86256FD0001BE634?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">announced more cuts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Matt Blunt has announced a second round of state budget cuts that will reduce state spending by $240 million and eliminate an additional 1,274 state jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to say that Matt Blunt, boy wonder of Missouri, will be old enough to be president in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to gloat to my friends in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespoonsexperience.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Ill<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewillblog.com\/\" target=\"_new\">inois<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Wisconsin<\/a>, but Ha!  In your face!  A Republican governor with a Republican legislature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Cardetti, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, said Blunt&#8217;s budget cuts would hurt children, older adults and vulnerable people who lack lobbyists to protect their interests in the state capital. &#8220;He&#8217;s especially ravaged the Missouri Division of Youth Services, a national model for how to take care of juvenile offenders and then turn them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}