{"id":1260,"date":"2009-11-04T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/04\/scozzafava-speaks\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:53:00","slug":"scozzafava-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/04\/scozzafava-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Scozzafava speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve at all followed the historic 23rd congressional district race, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/14669\/scozzafava-on-the-heated-battle-for-the-heart-and-soul-of-the-gop\">today&#8217;s interview by NCPR&#8217;s Jonathan Brown with Republican candidate (until Saturday) Dede Scozzafava is absolutely must-listen radio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple choice cuts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what she thought of notions that she betrayed Republicans by endorsing Democrat Bill Owens: &#8220;If I&#8217;m going to be condemned for endorsing a candidate from a different party, then I think any other Republican that endorsed a candidate other than the Republican candidate should be treated the same way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talking about what she called &#8220;the battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party&#8221; and the &#8220;lies, vitriol, and deceit&#8221; leveled at her by right-wing conservatives, she said this: &#8220;If that&#8217;s where the soul of our party is, all is not well with our soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve at all followed the historic 23rd congressional district race, today&#8217;s interview by NCPR&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/1260"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}