{"id":1210,"date":"2009-10-30T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/30\/ouch-pataki-backs-hoffman\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T13:17:00","slug":"ouch-pataki-backs-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/30\/ouch-pataki-backs-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch: Pataki backs Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dede Scozzafava was one of Gov. George Pataki&#8217;s loyal foot soldiers in the state Assembly.  The two are viewed as Republicans of similar stripe &#8212; moderates, pragmatists.<\/p>\n<p>But Pataki&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/politics\/ny-23-conservatives-scare-moderates-away\">message to a Conservative Party dinner<\/a> last night in New York City was about as crystal clear as they come.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s backing Doug Hoffman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will fight for our proud servicemen and women at Fort Drum, our dairy farmers in Lowville and our manufacturers in Plattsburgh,&#8221; Pataki said in a statement. &#8220;And Doug Hoffman can win.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There it is in four words.  Republicans now clearly view the Lake Placid accountant as their best hope to hold NY-23.<\/p>\n<p>And in politics, winning trumps loyalty almost every time.  A long weekend ahead for Scozzafava.<\/p>\n<p>One footnote:  Pataki&#8217;s speech looked very much like a campaign speech.  But when the former governor noted that he won his three terms as governor with Conservative Party backing, there was a notable silence from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>No applause.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/\">Watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dede Scozzafava was one of Gov. George Pataki&#8217;s loyal foot soldiers in the state Assembly. [&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\/1210"}],"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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}