{"id":1084,"date":"2009-09-28T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/28\/scozzafava-draws-a-stafford-endorsement-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:21:00","slug":"scozzafava-draws-a-stafford-endorsement-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/28\/scozzafava-draws-a-stafford-endorsement-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Scozzafava draws a Stafford endorsement, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Stafford, the widow of former state Senator and political icon Ron Stafford, has been stewarding his legacy the last few years, since his death in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the management of his political war chest &#8212; which under New York law can remain active even after a lawmaker&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n<p>Now Kay Stafford and her children have endorsed Republican Dede Scozzafava.  Here&#8217;s part of the statement issued by the family:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Stafford family is happy to endorse the Republican candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, Dede Scozzafava&#8230;.Like Ron [Stafford], Dede understands the people of the region and will carry on the good work of John McHugh as a voice for the region.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to know what kind of heft this sort of endorsement means. <\/p>\n<p>The Stafford name still resonates in a lot of circles, so it can&#8217;t hurt &#8212; especially in Clinton, Franklin and Essex counties, where Scozzafava is less well known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Stafford, the widow of former state Senator and political icon Ron Stafford, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"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=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}