{"id":2162,"date":"2010-05-26T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:23:32","slug":"geographic-diversity-in-lg-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/26\/geographic-diversity-in-lg-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic diversity in LG picks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General&#8211;and front runner in New York&#8217;s gubernatorial race&#8211;Andrew Cuomo tapped Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy to be his Lieutenant Governor today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a position that&#8217;s taken on a new significance after former Gov. Eliot Spitzer stepped down amid a prostitution scandal. That elevated current Gov. David Paterson, who has had some difficulty wielding the power of the state&#8217;s top office.<\/p>\n<p>But both were from New York City and lots of upstate voices have questioned if either of these men really had a grasp of our issues.<\/p>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio picked Greg Edwards, the Chautauqua County Executive as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these picks? Does geographic diversity on the ticket matter? Will it help this region? Will it sway your vote?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General&#8211;and front runner in New York&#8217;s gubernatorial race&#8211;Andrew Cuomo tapped Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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\/2162"}],"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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}