{"id":21815,"date":"2011-03-31T20:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:59:46","slug":"rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Respectful Rally gathers at the Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11april\/0402cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A large group protested Gov. Rick Snyder&#8217;s fiscal policies outside the annual Republican Lincoln Day Dinner.<\/em><br \/>\nWith an expanded album by Barry Bauer<!--more--><br \/>\nA good-sized crowd gathered Thursday evening at the front entrance to the Mint Restaurant, which was closed. The majority of the crowd was at the southeast corner of Spring and Higham Sts.  They were protesting Governor Rick Snyder&#8217;s budget proposals. Gov. Snyder was scheduled to be the the keynote speaker for the Clinton County Republican Party annual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Mint Banquet Center in downtown St. Johns.  Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley was also expected to be attending.<br \/>\nThere were plenty of signs, and the gathering was peaceful except for the occasional loud chanting whenever an attendee to the Republican fund raiser drove into the parking lot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11april\/01rally1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nRichard Kramer retired after 40 years as a business and computer teacher at St. Johns High School.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11april\/02rally2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nJoyce Caulkins and Carol Mitchell<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m here because I&#8217;m supporting our children, and the cuts that the Governor is proposing to public education are wrong&#8221; said Carol Mitchell. &#8220;It will affect our kids and the future of our state for what he&#8217;s proposing, and it&#8217;s just not right. There&#8217;s money; we don&#8217;t have to make cuts to public education.&#8221;<br \/>\n[picasa width=&#8221;500&#8243; height=&#8221;375&#8243; bgcolor=&#8221;#000000&#8243; autoplay=&#8221;1&#8243; showcaption=&#8221;1&#8243; user=&#8221;sjindy&#8221; album=&#8221;es_110331&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large group protested Gov. Rick Snyder&#8217;s fiscal policies outside the annual Republican Lincoln Day Dinner. With an expanded album by Barry Bauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}