{"id":1490,"date":"2010-01-08T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/08\/barclay-mulls-ny-23-run\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:27:00","slug":"barclay-mulls-ny-23-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/08\/barclay-mulls-ny-23-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclay mulls NY-23 run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Will Barclay announced today he&#8217;s forming an exploratory committee to consider a run for Congressman Bill Owens seat.  Barclay is the Oswego County Republican who ran against Darrel Aubertine at the beginning of 2008 when Jim Wright resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Barclay&#8217;s press release:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>State Assemblyman Will Barclay (R,I,C\u2014Pulaski) today announced that he is forming an exploratory committee for purposes of considering a run for the 23rd Congressional District.<span>  <\/span>Under federal election law, an individual who is considering running for a seat in Congress is allowed to raise and expend funds for the purposes of determining whether to run for Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>            <\/span>\u201cOver the past several weeks, I have been honored to have been approached by numerous friends and supporters urging me to run for Congress,\u201d said Barclay.<span>  <\/span>\u201cWhile I didn\u2019t run during the special election due to family reasons, I am deeply disappointed with the outcome of that race and feel that this time I should more thoroughly investigate running.<span>  <\/span>To that end, over the next couple of weeks I plan on traveling throughout the Congressional District to meet with party officials and various constituencies to discuss my potential candidacy.<span>  <\/span>I am excited about starting this process and again I am honored to be urged to run.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Will Barclay announced today he&#8217;s forming an exploratory committee to consider a run for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/1490"}],"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=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}