{"id":3096,"date":"2010-10-28T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:07:54","slug":"enterprise-endorses-democrat-johnson-in-assembly-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/28\/enterprise-endorses-democrat-johnson-in-assembly-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise endorses Democrat Johnson in Assembly 114"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough campaign season for Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, the Republican from Peru who represents the Plattsburgh region.<\/p>\n<p>She tangled with many conservatives after endorsing Dede Scozzafava in last year&#8217;s special House election.<\/p>\n<p>David Kimmel is running this year as a third-party Conservative, coming at her hard.<\/p>\n<p>She also drew a qualified, thoughtful Democratic opponent, Rudy Johnson from Malone.<\/p>\n<p>If Duprey and Kimmel split the Republican vote, Johnson has a very real chance of capturing this historically conservative district.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/521102\/Rudy-Johnson-for-Assembly.html?nav=5003\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> has chimed in, with its editorial page arguing that Johnson would be the better pick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We see his background as an efficiency expert for farms in Franklin  County as a strong asset. An ingrained sense of thrift with money and  energy, and professional expertise in energy-efficient technology and  agriculture, could be put to good use for the people of the district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Enterprise also argues that a Democrat would carry more weight in Albany&#8217;s Democratically-controlled Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>They also like Johnson&#8217;s plan for electing at least some APA commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full endorsement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/521102\/Rudy-Johnson-for-Assembly.html?nav=5003\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough campaign season for Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, the Republican from Peru who [&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\/3096"}],"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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}