{"id":1723,"date":"2010-03-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/09\/hoffmans-back-in-the-23rd-district\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:30:00","slug":"hoffmans-back-in-the-23rd-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/09\/hoffmans-back-in-the-23rd-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman&#8217;s back in the 23rd district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tea party and Conservative favorite Doug Hoffman is officially back in the running for the House seat currently occupied by Plattsburgh Democrat Bill Owens.  <\/p>\n<p>The Lake Placid accountant, who became a conservative media sensation when he bumped Dede Scozzava out of the running, says he&#8217;s the man to retake the seat.  Here&#8217;s his statement. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will champion the fight for less spending, lower taxes and shrinking the deficit. I will speak out about the need to defend our nation and the freedoms of its people. And, I will never back down from taking on the career politicians who conveniently forget that they represent and work for you; average American citizens, not the special interests who fill the back rooms of Washington with lobbyists and fill the campaign coffers of elected officials with money.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least three other Republicans are considering a run.  Should be an interesting primary.<\/p>\n<p>In an article this week, the magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34041.html\">Politico raised questions<\/a> about whether tea party insurgents like Hoffman are the strongest GOP candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The early results from tea party candidates, despite their focus on hot-button issues such as opposition to President Barack Obama\u2019s health care reform bill and concern about budget-busting policies of both parties, have not been pretty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Hoffman won&#8217;t be easy to beat in the primary.  He&#8217;ll be well-funded and will likely have plenty of media support on talk radio and the blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Should be another fascinating race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea party and Conservative favorite Doug Hoffman is officially back in the running for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/1723"}],"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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}