{"id":3546,"date":"2011-01-12T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2011-01-12T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:33:35","slug":"morning-read-vermonts-senators-take-different-approaches-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/12\/morning-read-vermonts-senators-take-different-approaches-after-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Vermont&#8217;s Senators take different approaches after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110112\/NEWS03\/101120309\/Leahy-decries-seething-rhetoric-Sanders-goes-on-attack\">The Burlington Free Press is noting this morning<\/a> that Vermont&#8217;s two Senators have adopted starkly different tones following last weekend&#8217;s assassination attempt in Tucson.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who often describes himself as a socialist, raised the violence in a fundraising letter, according to the newspaper and added this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Have right-wing reactionaries, through threats and acts of violence,  intimidated people with different points of view from expressing  political positions?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democratic Senator Patricky Leahy sounded a more conciliatory tone, urging all sides to tone down the rhetoric.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The demonizing of opponents, of government,  of public service has gone too far. Our politics have become  incendiary. And we all share the responsibility for lowering the  temperature. That is a responsibility we all have, to keep our democracy  strong and thriving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 Two very different takes.\u00a0 Do you find your views reflected here, or do you take a different approach to the political climate and the bloodshed in Arizona?\u00a0 Comments welcome below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press is noting this morning that Vermont&#8217;s two Senators have adopted starkly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}