{"id":1127,"date":"2009-10-08T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/08\/full-court-press\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T18:51:00","slug":"full-court-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/08\/full-court-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Full court press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First came the news yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/2009\/10\/obama-wades-into-middle-of-ny-23.html\">President Obama will headline a $4,800 a plate fundraiser<\/a> in Manhattan for Democratic candidate Bill Owens.<\/p>\n<p>Now this afternoon, former President Bill Clinton lends Owens his Democratic star power with an <a href=\"http:\/\/dccc.org\/blog\/archives\/referendum\/\">e-mailed fundraising push<\/a> (via the DCCC, of course).  He calls the 23rd Congressional race &#8220;a referendum&#8221; on Obama&#8217;s agenda and makes it sound urgent&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;color:black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;color: black;font-family: Arial\">Our top strategists just briefed me on this race. They said that <b><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bill needs to raise $83,000 before  Friday<\/span><\/u><\/b> to stay on the air combating the more than $500K  Republicans have already spent attacking him.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;color:black\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;color: black;font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family: lucida grande\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Meanwhile, as has become characteristic of this topsy-turvy campaign, Republican Dede Scozzafava is ringing up the union endorsements: the central New York United Auto Workers, the Plattsburgh-Saranac Lake Building and Construction Trades Council, and today, the Jefferson-Lewis-St. Lawrence Central Trades and Labor Council.  (Boy, don&#8217;t these labor folks have a penchant for the catchy titles?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">These are big endorsements for the Republican, and they often go to Democrats.  But Scozzafava&#8217;s been friendly with labor her entire political career.  It doesn&#8217;t hurt that her husband, Ron McDougall, is president of the last of those three labor councils.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First came the news yesterday that President Obama will headline a $4,800 a plate fundraiser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/1127"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}