{"id":1462,"date":"2010-01-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/02\/duprey-faces-republican-primary-challenge\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:00:00","slug":"duprey-faces-republican-primary-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/02\/duprey-faces-republican-primary-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Duprey faces Republican primary challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/kimmel-731625.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 254px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/kimmel-731602.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Republican Assemblywoman Janet Duprey angered a lot of people with her support for same-sex marriage, and her stalwart backing of Dede Scozzafava, a pariah among many North Country Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews with NCPR, she predicted that she would be &#8220;primaried&#8221; in 2010 and now it looks like she has her first challenger.<\/p>\n<p>David Kimmel, from Cadyville, will run on the Republican line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/510484.html?nav=5008\">telling the Adirondack Daily Enterprise&#8217;s Chris Knight<\/a> that he&#8217;ll bring a &#8220;warrior ethos&#8221; to the campaign and the job.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We watch what&#8217;s going on in Albany and can&#8217;t believe how little is being done,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s as if they don&#8217;t think any of us are paying attention. It&#8217;s important to send a message that we are paying attention.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even without the turmoil within the North Country&#8217;s GOP, this is a tough season for incumbents of all stripes.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a very competitive primary season.  Read more about Kimmel in the Enterprise and listen for Chris&#8217;s story Monday morning on NCPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Assemblywoman Janet Duprey angered a lot of people with her support for same-sex marriage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}