{"id":1230,"date":"2009-11-01T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/house-republicans-promise-hoffman-armed-services-committe-seat\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:05:00","slug":"house-republicans-promise-hoffman-armed-services-committe-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/house-republicans-promise-hoffman-armed-services-committe-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans promise Hoffman Armed Services Committe seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span>Matching a pledge that they made to Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, the House GOP leadership has now promised to offer Conservative Doug Hoffman &#8220;the next available&#8221; seat on the House Armed Services Committee if he wins Tuesday&#8217;s vote.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span>Here&#8217;s the full statement issued today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span>\u201cDoug Hoffman has our full support for the next available seat on the House Armed Services Committee so he can best serve the interests of Fort Drum and the troops and military families of New York\u2019s Twenty-Third Congressional District. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span>\u201cThe strategic and economic importance of this military base to Central and Northern New York demands that anyone representing this district be in a position to support its needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt\"><span>\u201cJohn McHugh\u2019s leadership on Armed Services was a great asset to the people of the North Country and Doug Hoffman is ready to carry on that legacy as their next congressman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span>New York\u2019s Twenty-Third Congressional District encompasses all or part of 11 counties throughout the central and northern part of the Empire State.  The district includes Fort Drum, home of the Army\u2019s 10<sup>th<\/sup> Mountain Division.  Over 12% of the people living in New York\u2019s Twenty-Third Congressional District are military veterans.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matching a pledge that they made to Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, the House GOP leadership [&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\/1230"}],"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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}