{"id":490,"date":"2003-07-02T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/07\/02\/howard-dean-meetup\/"},"modified":"2003-07-02T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T04:04:45","slug":"howard-dean-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/07\/02\/howard-dean-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Dean Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the local <a href=\"http:\/\/dean2004.meetup.com\">Howard Dean Meetup<\/a> tonight looking for a little info and maybe some like minded individuals. It turns out that there are one or two people in Rochester that aren&#8217;t republican, that was a good feeling.<\/p>\n<p>There is more research to be done for me on all these candidates, but for now I like Dean. I don&#8217;t agree with him on a few things, but his record in Vermont on Health Care is excellent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Vermont, where I served as governor for the last 11 years, nearly 92% of adults now have coverage. Most importantly, 99% of all Vermont children are eligible for health insurance and 96% have it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> He&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/views03\/0417-07.htm\">strongly against the Iraq war.<\/a> I&#8217;m right behind him there.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it plays out. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0703\/p02s02-uspo.html\">recent article about him<\/a> in the Christian Science Monitor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the local Howard Dean Meetup tonight looking for a little info and maybe some like minded individuals. It turns out that there are one or two people in Rochester that aren&#8217;t republican, that was a good feeling. There is more research to be done for me on all these candidates, but for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-7U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}