{"id":2107,"date":"2010-05-15T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2010-05-15T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:00:38","slug":"an-endorsement-for-doug-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/15\/an-endorsement-for-doug-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"An endorsement for Doug Hoffman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Country tea party leader Mark Barie from Plattsburgh has announced that he&#8217;s holding a joint press conference on Wednesday with Conservative Republican candidate Doug Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman, of course, is in a primary fight with Watertown attorney Matt Doheny, who has been winning endorsements from most of the 23rd district GOP committees.<\/p>\n<p>According to Barie, he and Hoffman will be joined by &#8220;several dozen members of the Upstate New York Tea party&#8221; at events in Watertown and Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Barie promises &#8220;a very significant development in the race for the NY 23rd Congressional District.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the tea party movement goes strong for Hoffman with an endorsement and the GOP sticks firmly by Doheny, it could make for a very interesting test of where the region&#8217;s more conservative voters are trending.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hoffman has suggested that he&#8217;ll remain in the race as a Conservative even if Doheny wins, so this situation could grow complicated quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Bill Owens is running unopposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Country tea party leader Mark Barie from Plattsburgh has announced that he&#8217;s holding a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"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=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}