{"id":234,"date":"2008-11-10T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/10\/more-talk-of-north-countrys-ray-meier-as-state-gop-party-chair\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T09:49:00","slug":"more-talk-of-north-countrys-ray-meier-as-state-gop-party-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/10\/more-talk-of-north-countrys-ray-meier-as-state-gop-party-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"More talk of North Country&#8217;s Ray Meier as state GOP party chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press political writer Michael Gormley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/newyork\/ny-bc-ny--nyrepublicans-ana1108nov08,0,5898408.story\">scans the wreckage<\/a> of New York&#8217;s Republican Party and finds former state Senator Ray Meier &#8212; described in a new article as &#8220;a leading candidate to be the next state Republican chairman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meier thinks Republicans need some new ideas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the things I learned after losing my congressional race is you need to step back and reflect,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this party needs to develop a message and we need to talk to people about things that are relevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that means reviving the upstate economy, lowering property taxes, making health care affordable and accessible, and improving the quality of schools, even if politicians have to cross powerful lobbies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless you have something interesting to say, you don&#8217;t have a future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Successful political movements are about ideas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meier adds this cheerful rallying cry:  &#8220;And look around &#8212; there&#8217;s nothing to lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press political writer Michael Gormley scans the wreckage of New York&#8217;s Republican Party and [&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\/234"}],"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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}