{"id":1479,"date":"2010-01-06T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/aubertines-energy-chair-casualty-of-bipartisanship\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T20:54:00","slug":"aubertines-energy-chair-casualty-of-bipartisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/06\/aubertines-energy-chair-casualty-of-bipartisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubertine&#8217;s Energy chair casualty of bipartisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to reach across the aisle of the State Senate, Democratic Conference leader John Sampson  handed off Senator Darrel Aubertine&#8217;s chairmanship of the Senate Energy committee to western New York Republican George Maziarz.<\/p>\n<p>Aubertine&#8217;s official statement about the change sounds amenable enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I&#8217;ve said throughout my time in public service, a good idea is never a Republican or Democratic idea, it&#8217;s just a good idea. Bringing a chair from the other side of the aisle will introduce new ideas to the process and enable me to continue in an active role within the committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aubertine perhaps was the mostly likely candidate to lose a chairmanship because he had two &#8211; he&#8217;ll remain chairman of the Senate Agriculture committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to reach across the aisle of the State Senate, Democratic Conference leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/1479"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}