{"id":113,"date":"2008-10-03T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/03\/gillibrand-again-votes-no-on-wall-street-bailout-yes-from-mchugh\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:56:00","slug":"gillibrand-again-votes-no-on-wall-street-bailout-yes-from-mchugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/03\/gillibrand-again-votes-no-on-wall-street-bailout-yes-from-mchugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand again votes no on Wall Street bailout; yes from McHugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few moments ago, North Country congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand repeated her No vote on the $700 billion bailout. <\/p>\n<p>The Democrat was one of only three New York representatives (all Democrats, interestingly enough) to reject the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Republican John McHugh, from Pierrepont, and Democrat Mike Arcuri from the Mohawk Valley voted Yes on the package.<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand was joined by Democrats Maurice Hinchey and Jose Serrano. <\/p>\n<p>Her stance &#8212; while apparently popular with most constituents &#8212; has drawn at least some implied criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican published a lead editorial this morning questioning the political motives of naysayers.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">This is not to say that every member who voted against the bailout did so only to get re-elected. That rescue plan was an enormous commitment of taxpayer money to right a wrong committed by people who hardly deserve such largesse. There is plenty of reason to oppose the action besides getting re-elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">But the suspicion is strong that some who voted that way did so with personal interests in mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"specialstorytext\">\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span>Gillibrand has insisted that her stance is one of principle, not political expedience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few moments ago, North Country congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand repeated her No vote on the [&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\/113"}],"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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}