{"id":2804,"date":"2010-09-23T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2010-09-23T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:57:08","slug":"gop-embraces-carl-paladino-but-rejects-jim-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/23\/gop-embraces-carl-paladino-but-rejects-jim-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP embraces Carl Paladino, but rejects Jim Russell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Russell, the Republican candidate in the New York&#8217;s 18th House district is under fire from his own party for what they describe (accurately, I think) as racist comments.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Russell being interviewed on RNN&#8217;s Real Politics.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4kAwDo-ZZYo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4kAwDo-ZZYo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The GOP says this guy is a &#8220;kook.&#8221;  But they&#8217;re trying to clear a path for Carl Paladino &#8212; who sent racist emails and called Sheldon Silver &#8220;the anti-Christ&#8221; &#8211;to win the governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2010\/09\/lazio-says-candidates-need-to.html\">New York Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lazio denied that he was looking for some kind of a deal to drop the Conservative line and said the efforts of GOP leaders to pressure him out of the race were &#8220;inconsequential&#8221; to his decision making process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?  A clear difference?  A double standard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Russell, the Republican candidate in the New York&#8217;s 18th House district is under fire [&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\/2804"}],"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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}