{"id":3252,"date":"2010-11-18T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2010-11-18T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T21:40:05","slug":"aubertine-finally-concedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/18\/aubertine-finally-concedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubertine (finally) concedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen days after he found himself in a more than 3,000 vote hole to Republican Patty Ritchie on election night, State Senator Darrel Aubertine has conceded the race this afternoon in a brief statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am extremely grateful for the support I\u2019ve received over the years and the opportunities I\u2019ve been given to serve the people of the North Country for eight years and Central New York for the past two and a half years. I am proud of what we\u2019ve accomplished working together across political divisions and I wish Senator-elect Patty Ritchie well in serving the people of Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement comes just after absentee ballot counting had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/blogs09\">mathematically eliminated Aubertine from victory<\/a>.\u00a0 Aubertine would have had to win 95% of the absentee ballots to win.\u00a0 Aubertine has not spoken publicly since election night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen days after he found himself in a more than 3,000 vote hole to Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/3252"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}