{"id":15277,"date":"2014-03-12T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=15277"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T19:08:06","slug":"a-first-conversation-with-aaron-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/03\/12\/a-first-conversation-with-aaron-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"A first conversation with NY-21 candidate Aaron Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aaron Woolf, Democratic Party candidate for the NY-21 House seat. Photo: provided by NYS Democratic Party<\/p><\/div>\n

Update: You can hear David Sommerstein’s full interview with Aaron Woolf, and read his statements about where he stands on the issues, in this story from NCPR News<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Democrat Aaron Woolf began filling in some of the missing pieces of his campaign for NY\u2019s 21st<\/sup> Congressional District this morning, speaking with NCPR\u2019s David Sommerstein and other North Country media (you can hear excerpts from that conversation this afternoon a 4:55 on our air and at ncpr.org<\/a>; and tomorrow morning on the 8 O’clock Hour.)<\/p>\n

Woolf talked about his positions on health care, gun control and lots of other issues.<\/p>\n

Press and public have been waiting to hear Woolf\u2019s views and details of his background since Feb. 12, when Democratic Party leaders named him their candidate to replace Rep. Bill Owens. Republicans have used the time lapse to brand Woolf as an outsider who knows little about the vast district.<\/p>\n

Woolf is a documentary filmmaker. He splits his time between New York City and Elizabethtown, and also owns a food store \u00a0in Brooklyn. Today he said his North Country roots go back to the late 60s.<\/p>\n

He said his life and work has taken him to \u201ca lot of different places, \u201cbut the one constant place in my life has been Elizabethtown, NY. \u00a0It\u2019s the place I learned to change my oil. It\u2019s the place I learned to change a tire, it\u2019s the place I learned to shoot a gun. It\u2019s, I think, the place that has informed me both personally and politically, far more than any other. \u201c<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI\u2019m running for Congress because I see the North Country, I see the New York 21st<\/sup> District at this crossroads moment…we see on one hand immense disinvestment in the region and the consequences of that — Main Street\u00a0 businesses boarded up and young people not coming back. But at the same time we see these seeds of a new economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says he\u2019s most proud of how \u201cour legacy skills\u201d in agriculture and forestry “are being re-purposed for a new rural economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woolf also addressed \u201cdysfunction\u201d in Washington, which \u00a0\u201chas the potential to take away all the good work we\u2019ve done in this district.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans have ripped Woolf over his lack of familiarity with much of the district. He admitted he didn\u2019t know much about Watertown, for example. When he stopped by the NCPR studios last week during a tour to meet with local party and community leaders, Woolf said was getting to know the district, talking to people in both parties.<\/p>\n

Today, he said, he\u2019s been building his knowledge base. \u201cIt\u2019s always going to be true,” he said, \u201cthat I have a more intimate knowledge of the places near where I grew up. But my goal is to know the entire district with a very high level of intimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay tuned…hear more from Aaron Wolf during Story of the Day, and during regional news tomorrow morning, on air and at ncpr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: You can hear David Sommerstein’s full interview with Aaron Woolf, and read his statements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13570,7057,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}