{"id":2465,"date":"2010-08-08T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2010-09-01T13:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:47:07","slug":"a-live-debate-in-ny-23-between-the-gop-and-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/08\/a-live-debate-in-ny-23-between-the-gop-and-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A live debate in NY-23 between the GOP and the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Barie, head of UNYTEA, has announced that Doug Hoffman and Matt Doheny will debate live in Plattsburgh on September 1st.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWe are very pleased that both Mr. Doheny and Mr. Hoffman trust UNYTEA to host a forum which is fair and equitable to both candidates\u201d, said Barie, adding \u201cThe debate is part of our on-going effort to keep the voters informed about their choices in the upcoming election.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNYTEA has endorsed Hoffman in the race for Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Barie&#8217;s release, questions will be posed to the candidates by three members of the media, who will be named next week.<\/p>\n<p>Once again this year, the NY-23 race has boiled down to a classic face-off between the district&#8217;s Republican Party leaders &#8212; who have all endorsed Doheny &#8212; and the tea party-conservative movement, which has embraced Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>The wrinkle is that the GOP&#8217;s pick this time is far more conservative than their candidate last year, Dede Scozzafava.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how (and how well) the two men are able to distinguish their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this September&#8217;s primary will face off against Democratic incumbent Bill Owens, who is unchallenged in his party&#8217;s primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Barie, head of UNYTEA, has announced that Doug Hoffman and Matt Doheny will debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465"}],"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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}