{"id":14329,"date":"2014-01-16T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=14329"},"modified":"2014-01-16T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:01:14","slug":"candidate-pool-widens-in-ny-21-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/01\/16\/candidate-pool-widens-in-ny-21-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate pool widens in NY 21 House race (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14191\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14191\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14191\" alt=\"New York's 21st Congressional District\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap-449x450.jpg 449w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/NY21CDMap.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York&#8217;s 21st Congressional District<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speculation continues to build about new candidates entering the North Country&#8217;s congressional race, now that Democrat Bill Owens has bowed out of this year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_14341\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/AddieRussell_375.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14341\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/AddieRussell_375-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"New York Assemblywoman Addie Russell (D)\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/AddieRussell_375-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/AddieRussell_375-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/01\/AddieRussell_375.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Assemblywoman Addie Russell (D)<\/p><\/div>Democratic Assemblywoman Addie Russell from Theresa has told news organizations that she&#8217;s considering a run and she&#8217;s scheduled a news conference for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Former Queensbury congressman Scott Murphy &#8212; also a Democrat &#8212; has told the Glens Falls Post Star that he&#8217;s not ruling out a bid for the seat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sypuEVTuqtg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Post Star is also reporting that Warren County district attorney Kate Hogan and former candidate Matt Doheny are also considering a bid on the Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Congressman Paul Ryan, one of the GOP&#8217;s leaders in Washington, sent a tweet this week endorsing Elise Stefanik, who moved to Essex County last year to position herself for a run for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik, a former White House staffer, worked on Ryan&#8217;s 2012 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation continues to build about new candidates entering the North Country&#8217;s congressional race, now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329"}],"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=14329"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}