{"id":1160,"date":"2009-10-20T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/20\/john-mchugh-should-weigh-in-on-ny-23\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T00:33:00","slug":"john-mchugh-should-weigh-in-on-ny-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/20\/john-mchugh-should-weigh-in-on-ny-23\/","title":{"rendered":"John McHugh should weigh in on NY-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, John McHugh has entered the Obama cabinet as Army Secretary.  In theory, the Republican serving under a Democratic President is now serenely apolitical.<\/p>\n<p>But with his boss, Barack Obama, stumping in New York City for Bill Owens, shouldn&#8217;t McHugh be given a voice as well?<\/p>\n<p>Seems a little unfair for the President to scoop McHugh up, then campaign to flip his seat away from the GOP to the Dems.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, an endorsement of Dede Scozzafava by McHugh would be a no-brainer.  McHugh shared a lot of her centrist, anti-GOP leadership views.<\/p>\n<p>(McHugh&#8217;s feuds with Republican minority leader John Boehner were epic and he told me once &#8212; on the record, no less &#8212; that he was happier now that his party was out of power.)<\/p>\n<p>But maybe I&#8217;m wrong.  Maybe John McHugh would surprise us once again and give the nod to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, McHugh remains a deeply respected figure in the North Country. <\/p>\n<p>Given that we have such a short time to get to know the three candidates, I for one would like to hear his thoughts on the race and on the leader who will soon fill his shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, John McHugh has entered the Obama cabinet as Army Secretary. In [&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\/1160"}],"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=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}