{"id":1670,"date":"2010-02-26T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/26\/ap-reports-paterson-ending-run-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:09:00","slug":"ap-reports-paterson-ending-run-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/26\/ap-reports-paterson-ending-run-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"AP reports Paterson ending run for Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Associated Press wire:<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Democratic officials are telling The Associated Press that New York Gov. David Paterson is not seeking election.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Democratic officials in Washington were informed of Paterson&#8217;s plans early Friday. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because Paterson had not publicly disclosed his plans.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paterson formally announced his campaign just days ago but faced mounting calls to drop out of the race in the midst of controversy. A top aide is ensnared in a domestic-violence scandal and the governor was finding dwindling support in his own party.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paterson became governor in 2008, when former Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a prostitution scandal. Paterson&#8217;s decision paves the way for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the preferred candidate of many Democrats, to make an unimpeded run for the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Associated Press wire: WASHINGTON &#8211; Democratic officials are telling The Associated Press that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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\/1670"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}