{"id":1231,"date":"2009-11-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/breaking-dede-scozzafava-republican-endorses-democrat-bill-owens\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:15:00","slug":"breaking-dede-scozzafava-republican-endorses-democrat-bill-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/01\/breaking-dede-scozzafava-republican-endorses-democrat-bill-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Dede Scozzafava, Republican, endorses Democrat Bill Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the statement issued by Republican Assemblywoman and former congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava a short time ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know me, and throughout my career I have always been an independent voice for the people I represent.  I have stood for our honest principles, and a truthful discussion of the issues, even when it cost me personally and politically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is in this spirit that I am writing to let you know I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh&#8217;s lasting legacy in the U.S. Congress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;ve been hearing from Republican officials who had backed Scozzafava and members of her campaign team, who sharply disagree with her stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the statement issued by Republican Assemblywoman and former congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava a short [&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\/1231"}],"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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}