{"id":2797,"date":"2017-02-12T21:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T21:05:47","slug":"as-indiana-governor-future-vp-let-request-gather-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"As Indiana governor, future VP let request gather dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2798\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170212Gutowski.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170212Gutowski.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170212Gutowski-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christy Gutowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb pardoned him for a 1996 armed robbery he did not commit, [Keith] Cooper, 49, said he was grateful to the new governor for doing something his predecessor, Vice President Mike Pence, long had refused to do&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooper spent nearly a decade of a 40-year sentence behind bars before he was released in 2006. Nearly three years ago, after the victims who had identified him as the shooter recanted and DNA evidence pointed to another man, the Indiana Parole Board unanimously recommended Cooper be pardoned. His request, though, sat unsigned on Pence&#8217;s desk&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to a request for comment, the vice president&#8217;s spokesman did not address the Cooper pardon but said Pence \u2018is proud of his record\u2019 as Indiana&#8217;s governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-keith-cooper-indiana-pardon-news-conference-met-20170210-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wrongly accused of armed robbery, he says Pence &#8216;abandoned me<\/a>&#8216; \u201d\u00a0by Christy Gutowski in the Chicago Tribune (Feb. 11)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t easy, but Pence made North Carolina\u2019s former governor seem absolutely eager to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1442\">rectify a wrongful prosecution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 12, 2017 \u201cOne day after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb pardoned him for a 1996 armed robbery he did not commit, [Keith] Cooper, 49, said he was grateful to the new governor for doing something his predecessor, Vice President Mike Pence, long had refused to do&#8230;. \u201cCooper spent nearly a decade of a 40-year sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}