{"id":1474,"date":"2010-01-06T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/wdt-seymour-revisionist-history-on-ny-23-race\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:49:00","slug":"wdt-seymour-revisionist-history-on-ny-23-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/wdt-seymour-revisionist-history-on-ny-23-race\/","title":{"rendered":"WDT Seymour: Revisionist history on NY-23 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Times&#8217; political writer Jude Seymour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100105\/BLOGS09\/100109889\/\">dissects RNC chairman Michael Steel&#8217;s new book<\/a> and finds <span>&#8220;a bit of revisionist history when it comes to discussing the 23rd Congressional District special election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seymour&#8217;s biggest beef is with Steele&#8217;s claim that Republican Dede Scozzafava was chosen as part of a backroom deal by Republican chairman and wasn&#8217;t &#8220;suited&#8221; to the district.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She received the same level of support from voters in the 2008 election as former Rep. John McHugh did in the 122nd Assembly District.<\/p>\n<p>She was for the Employee Free Choice Act, which Mr. McHugh supported. She was for abortion rights, as was Mr. McHugh. She was against cap-and-trade, which Mr. McHugh was criticized for supporting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seymour&#8217;s full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100105\/BLOGS09\/100109889\/\">is worth reading<\/a>.  Steele&#8217;s attempt to wrestle with the NY-23 race in his book shows just how big a deal this continues to be within the Republican movement.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one big thing that could trip up the GOP in 2010, it will be repeats of NY-23.  And Republicans still aren&#8217;t sure what went wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Times&#8217; political writer Jude Seymour dissects RNC chairman Michael Steel&#8217;s new book and [&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\/1474"}],"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=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}