{"id":202,"date":"2008-11-03T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/03\/watertown-daily-times-endorses-republican-renzi\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T13:33:00","slug":"watertown-daily-times-endorses-republican-renzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/03\/watertown-daily-times-endorses-republican-renzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown Daily Times endorses Republican Renzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is endorsing Republican challenger David Renzi in his bid to top Democratic incumbent Darrel Aubertine.  <\/p>\n<p>The editorial points to the geographic as well as the party divide in NY state politics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York state will be best represented if Republicans and Democrats divide the houses of the Legislature, thus providing a natural balance of power which will prevent either side from excessive political action.<\/p>\n<p>The political reality of today in New York is that upstate interests are the domain of Republicans and downstate interests are dominated by Democrats. To have both houses of the Legislature controlled by the same party is unhealthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aubertine currently leads the contest by 11% according to a Siena College poll over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is endorsing Republican challenger David Renzi in his bid to top [&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\/202"}],"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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}