{"id":2345,"date":"2010-07-07T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2010-07-16T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:36:37","slug":"plattsburgh-mayor-don-kasprzak-says-he-wont-endorse-doheny-or-hoffman-in-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/07\/plattsburgh-mayor-don-kasprzak-says-he-wont-endorse-doheny-or-hoffman-in-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Plattsburgh Mayor Don Kasprzak says he won&#8217;t endorse Doheny or Hoffman in GOP primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with NCPR, Plattsburgh&#8217;s Republican Mayor Don Kasprzak says he plans not to endorse either of the Republicans vying for the GOP vote in the NY-23 primary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been approached by both Republican candidates. I&#8217;m not saying my endorsement is all that important, I don&#8217;t know if I have all that much influence.\u00a0 But they both have had discussions with me.\u00a0 The bottom line in all of this is that I have my own campaign to worry about.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been telling people that I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to be directly involved in this [NY-23] campaign.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kasprzak also defended his willingness to publicly praise Rep. Bill Owens, the Democrat from Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have always been very supportive of people who have helped the North Country, regardless of their party.\u00a0 Even when I was on the [Plattsburgh] council from 1990-1994, some Republicans got upset that I worked with some Democrats and Independents, but I don&#8217;t have a problem with that&#8230;I&#8217;m not going to sit here and just criticize people if they&#8217;re Democrats.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with NCPR, Plattsburgh&#8217;s Republican Mayor Don Kasprzak says he plans not to [&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":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}