{"id":160,"date":"2008-10-22T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/22\/treadwell-gillibrand-face-off-in-poughkeepsie\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:20:00","slug":"treadwell-gillibrand-face-off-in-poughkeepsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/22\/treadwell-gillibrand-face-off-in-poughkeepsie\/","title":{"rendered":"Treadwell, Gillibrand face off in Poughkeepsie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll air a Gillibrand-Treadwell debate Thursday evening, produced by WMHT &#8212; but the two faced off for the first time last night in Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Glens Falls Post-Star the key flashpoint was taxes.  Sandy Treadwell, the Republican challenger, claimed that Gillibrand  voted for &#8220;the largest tax increase in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand said that wasn&#8217;t true &#8212; and after the debate staffers for the two politicians continued the debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can repeat a lie over and over again, but it still doesn&#8217;t make it true,&#8221; [Gillibrand spokeswoman Jess] Fassler said.<\/p>\n<p>Their race has drawn a bit more ink as the final weeks of the campaign tick down.  NCPR will simulcast WMHT&#8217;s debate (co-sponsored with the Albany Times-Union) Thursday at 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to WMHT for letting us share the program with our audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll air a Gillibrand-Treadwell debate Thursday evening, produced by WMHT &#8212; but the two faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/160"}],"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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}