{"id":2813,"date":"2010-09-24T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2010-09-24T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T13:14:53","slug":"morning-read-all-about-doug-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/24\/morning-read-all-about-doug-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  All about Doug Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Doug Hoffman dominates the morning news cycle and not just here in the North Country.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s his treatment in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/eyeon2010\/2010\/09\/history-repeating-itself-in-ny.html\">Congressional Quarterly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This may sound familiar.\u00a0 Doug Hoffman,  made infamous as the spoiler in last fall&#8217;s special election in New  York&#8217;s 23rd district, conceded defeat today in last week&#8217;s closely  fought GOP primary against businessman Matt Doheny.<\/p>\n<p>But in the next breath, he announced that he would pursue a bid as  the Conservative Party candidate and had secured a place on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s what he did last fall, when a divided Republican Party gave Democrat Bill Owens a congressional seat representing a district that had been in GOP hands for more than a century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the fact that Hoffman stole what should have been a great news cycle from Matt Doheny (who caravaned across the North Country yesterday trumpeting his GOP primary win) shows how much he&#8217;s changing this race.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x74675302\/Hoffman-will-stay-in-congressional-race\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100924\/NEWS03\/309249975\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/515550.html\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Doug Hoffman dominates the morning news cycle and not just here in the [&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\/2813"}],"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=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}