{"id":3048,"date":"2010-10-22T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:29:40","slug":"gop-assemblywoman-scozzafava-endorses-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/22\/gop-assemblywoman-scozzafava-endorses-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Assemblywoman Scozzafava endorses Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a huge surprise, but Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava has now formally endorsed Democrat Bill Owens in the NY-23 congressional race<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issues yesterday, Scozzafava said that Owens &#8220;provides the type of leadership we need that will work across the aisle for the best interest of all the citizens of New York&#8217;s 23rd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Scozzafava first endorsed Owens last year during the special election, when she was forced out of the House race by Conservative Doug Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>She is finishing up her term as Assemblywoman in the 122nd district, which includes parts of St. Lawrence, Lewis, Jefferson,  and Oswego Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Scozzafava isn&#8217;t seeking re-election.\u00a0 In a statement, Owens said he was &#8220;honored&#8221; by her support.<\/p>\n<p>His campaign also announced that two other Republican local government officials had endorsed him, from the town of Granby and the city of Fulton.<\/p>\n<p>The Owens campaign also issued a statement of support yesterday from former St. Lawrence University president Daniel Sullivan, who retired last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan praised Owens for &#8220;open-mindedness and intellectual integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a huge surprise, but Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava has now formally endorsed Democrat [&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\/3048"}],"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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}