{"id":1322,"date":"2009-11-18T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/18\/rep-murphy-draws-liberal-attacks-over-health-care\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:12:00","slug":"rep-murphy-draws-liberal-attacks-over-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/18\/rep-murphy-draws-liberal-attacks-over-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Murphy draws liberal attacks over health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I cruise the liberal blogosphere (I also cruise the conservative blogosphere&#8230;) I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of ads attacking Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls).<\/p>\n<p>The headline of these adds:  &#8220;Rep. Scott Murphy BETRAYAL of Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It follows with:  &#8220;Voted to kill health care reform in congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy was one of the few New York state Democrats to vote against the health care reform package developed in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of this ad campaign, calling itself the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, urges donors to help defeat Murphy, along with NY Dems Eric Massa and Michael McMahon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/1109\/Welcome_to_the_health_care_doghouse.html?showall\">Politico<\/a> has reported that &#8220;House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  and her regional whips pushed hard&#8221; for a Yes-vote from Murphy, but in the end accepted his &#8220;thumbs-down as a political necessity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Murphy has criticized aspects of the bill which drew little national attention, including tax increases that would affect Finch-Pruyn Paper and regional medical device companies.<\/p>\n<p>He also decided to oppose the idea of a public option, arguing that &#8220;people in our district do not want a single payer option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Rep. Murphy&#8217;s contacted me to correct my post: <\/p>\n<p>The congressman supports idea of a public option under certain conditions, but not the single-payer option similar to the systems in Canada and England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I cruise the liberal blogosphere (I also cruise the conservative blogosphere&#8230;) I&#8217;ve been seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}