{"id":1326,"date":"2009-11-19T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/mr-hoffman-flirts-with-irresponsible-politics\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:40:00","slug":"mr-hoffman-flirts-with-irresponsible-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/mr-hoffman-flirts-with-irresponsible-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Hoffman flirts with irresponsible politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/blogs09\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting on Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman&#8217;s claim in a fundraising letter that \u201cACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party\u201d \u201ctampered\u201d with results to deny him victory.<\/p>\n<p>Jude Seymour&#8217;s article continues with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Hoffman provided no evidence to support his claims, but asked fellow conservatives to send donations his way to \u201censure every vote is counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jerry O. Eaton, Jefferson County Republican elections commissioner, called Mr. Hoffman&#8217;s assertion \u201cabsolutely false.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>George Williams, Oswego County Republican chairman, also rejected Mr. Hoffman&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman spokesman Rob Ryan declined to offer support for claims that anything undue had occurred during the NY-23 balloting. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen and if we challenge the election, we will lay out the evidence on these matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To make such an explosive claim in a fundraising letter &#8212; and then to decline to offer evidence &#8212; is, in a word, irresponsible. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hoffman came remarkably close to winning a seat in Congress and appears to have a bright political future ahead of him, should he choose to stay in the game.<\/p>\n<p>But making reckless claims of this kind can only harm his own credibility, a credibility already frayed by his close association with figures like Glenn Beck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting on Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman&#8217;s claim in a fundraising [&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\/1326"}],"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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}