{"id":1287,"date":"2009-11-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/09\/scozzafava-loses-gop-leadership-post\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:00","slug":"scozzafava-loses-gop-leadership-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/09\/scozzafava-loses-gop-leadership-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Scozzafava loses GOP leadership post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Republican Assembly minority leader, Brian Kolb, today announced that he is punishing Dede Scozzafava for her decision to back a Democrat in last week&#8217;s NY-23 special election.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the statement released by Kolb:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I had a thorough and frank discussion with Assemblywoman Scozzafava. As a result, Dede has tendered, and I accepted, her resignation as our Conference&#8217;s Leader Pro Tempore. Over the coming weeks, I will be assessing who will serve as our Conference&#8217;s next Leader Pro Tempore to lead our Assembly floor debates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant blow to Scozzafava, costing her financially as well as in terms of prestige and influence.<\/p>\n<p>She was the first woman in the history of the Assembly to hold the leadership spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/\">The New York Daily News <\/a>questions whether Scozzafava will continue to caucus with Republicans, or indeed if she will seek re-election in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>NCPR has attempted to contact Assemblywoman Scozzafava through the day.  We&#8217;ll bring you her perspectives on this as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Republican Assembly minority leader, Brian Kolb, today announced that he is punishing Dede [&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\/1287"}],"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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}