{"id":174,"date":"2008-10-24T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/24\/us-chamber-of-commerce-backs-gop-in-senate-races\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:44:00","slug":"us-chamber-of-commerce-backs-gop-in-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/24\/us-chamber-of-commerce-backs-gop-in-senate-races\/","title":{"rendered":"US Chamber of Commerce backs GOP in Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting today on a last-ditch effort by the US Chamber of Commerce to prevent a Republican implosion in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the key quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Business executives fear that Democrats, bouyed by heavy spending from organized labor, could gain enough muscle in the Senate to spark policies favoring increased unionization, higher taxes, more restrictions on trade and more regulation on the financial-services and housing sectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the WSJ, the spending has triggered ire on the part of Democrats.  Here&#8217;s NY Sen. Chuck Schumer, who&#8217;s leading the Democratic Senate campaign nationwide:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole [Democratic] caucus is upset at what the Chamber has done,&#8221; he told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full account here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122480659803164965.html\"><br \/>http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122480659803164965.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting today on a last-ditch effort by the US Chamber [&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\/174"}],"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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}