{"id":164,"date":"2008-10-23T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/in-20th-cd-race-its-w-vs-big-tobacco\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T12:14:00","slug":"in-20th-cd-race-its-w-vs-big-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/23\/in-20th-cd-race-its-w-vs-big-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"In 20th CD race, it&#8217;s W vs. Big Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and challenger Sandy Treadwell (R) are slinging accusations in the final 12 days of their $8 million campaign battle.<\/p>\n<p>Treadwell is working to link Gillibrand to Big Tobacco.  She&#8217;s accepted campaign cash from cig companies and served as an attorney defending Phillip Morris in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand, meanwhile, is working to link Treadwell to George W. Bush.  Treadwell has been a prominent Republican leader for decades, though he now distances himself from the unpopular Republican president.<\/p>\n<p>The pair face off in a debate tonight produced by WMHT and the Albany Times-Union.  We&#8217;ll air it live tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.  We&#8217;ll have complete coverage tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and challenger Sandy Treadwell (R) are slinging accusations in the final [&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\/164"}],"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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}