{"id":1042,"date":"2009-09-09T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/09\/fight-for-gop-leadership-winding-to-an-end\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:16:00","slug":"fight-for-gop-leadership-winding-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/09\/fight-for-gop-leadership-winding-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight for GOP leadership winding to an end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Nolan, chair of Saratoga County&#8217;s influential Republican Committee, has thrown his support to Ed Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Cox is a Manhattan lawyer and the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon.  He&#8217;s also won the support of Dean Skelos, minority leader in the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Thinks are looking grim for Niagara County&#8217;s Henry Wojtaszek, who was favored by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Benjamin, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2009\/09\/cox-closing-in-on-state-gop-ch.html\">New York Daily News<\/a>, asked Nolan if this complicates Giuliani&#8217;s gubernatorial bid.  Here&#8217;s his reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see this as a hit on Rudy. He&#8217;s still a part of the Republican Party &#8211; a very major part. We just didn&#8217;t want to stall this out any longer.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Nolan, chair of Saratoga County&#8217;s influential Republican Committee, has thrown his support to Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"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=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}