{"id":15139,"date":"2014-03-05T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:01:50","slug":"astorino-announces-candidacy-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/03\/05\/astorino-announces-candidacy-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Astorino announces candidacy for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15140\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/03\/family2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15140\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15140\" alt=\" Rob Astorino and family. Photo: RobAstorino.com Rob Astorino and family. Photo: RobAstorino.com \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/03\/family2.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/03\/family2.jpg 439w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/03\/family2-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/03\/family2-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Astorino and family. Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robastorino.com\/?mf_portfolio=35\">RobAstorino.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an announcement that doesn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise, Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has announced his candidacy for governor. Here&#8217;s his press release, and a video announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White Plains, NY&#8211;March 5, 2014&#8230;.Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino today announced his candidacy for governor of the State of New York in a video message to New Yorkers. The twice-elected county executive emphasized New York&#8217;s myriad dead-last rankings among states in categories including high taxes, business friendliness, corruption and population loss. \u00a0Mr. Astorino, 46, laid out a vision in his video to put New York &#8220;back in the winning column.&#8221; Today&#8217;s announcement will be followed by a campaign tour beginning Thursday with stops across the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/76iJ5L6GfRc\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/24215\/20140303\/cuomo-s-likely-gop-opponent-is-westchester-county-executive\">Astorino indicated a few days ago he&#8217;d be running<\/a>; with Donald Trump potentially in the race, it&#8217;s not yet clear whether he&#8217;d be the only GOP candidate for governor.<a name=\"fullstory\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astorino, a former radio executive, has twice won the county executive&#8217;s seat in Westchester County on the Republican line, in a region where Democrats now dominate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an announcement that doesn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise, Republican Westchester County Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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\/15139"}],"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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions\/15144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}