{"id":9116,"date":"2018-10-30T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:41:39","slug":"unwelcome-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9116","title":{"rendered":"Unwelcome in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  Donald and Melania are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/30\/politics\/donald-trump-pittsburgh-visit-shooting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">soloing in Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Local and national officials are <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">declining to appear with President Donald Trump<\/span> on Tuesday when he visits a grieving Pittsburgh, where funerals for slain congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue are set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Mitch McConnell<\/span>, House Speaker <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Paul Ryan<\/span>, Senate Minority Leader <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Chuck Schumer<\/span>, and House Minority Leader <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Nancy Pelosi<\/span> were all invited to join the President but were not planning to take part in the visit, according to two congressional sources. Through their offices, McConnell and Ryan both cited scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Pennsylvania&#8217;s two US senators were also not planning to join Trump<\/span> in Pittsburgh. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, was invited to join the President but declined, according to a spokesman, citing previous commitments in another part of the state. Democratic Sen. Bob Casey was not invited by the White House, according to his communications director. Casey will attend a vigil for the victims in southeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>A spate of <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">local and state officials also said they would not appear with Trump<\/span> &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Better late than never, I suppose, but I wish this bunch had shown the character and courage to disavow an association with Trump <i>before<\/i> he stoked another mass murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  Donald and Malania are soloing in Pittsburgh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}