{"id":348,"date":"2008-12-08T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/08\/aubertine-to-chair-agriculture-updated-w-audio\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T20:12:00","slug":"aubertine-to-chair-agriculture-updated-w-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/08\/aubertine-to-chair-agriculture-updated-w-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubertine to chair Agriculture (UPDATED w\/ audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">North Country Senator Darrel Aubertine has been tapped to chair the Senate Agriculture Committee.<span>  <\/span>His position was the first announced at today\u2019s press conference with leader Malcolm Smith.  Aubertine, about to begin his first full term in the Senate, is a life-long dairy farmer from Cape Vincent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:14\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia;font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">We&#8217;ll have more on the appointment later today on All Before Five and tomorrow on The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour.  But if you want to see a truly bizarre political moment (not unusual for Albany), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/9498\/video-smiths-abbreviated-press-conference\">watch the way Smith abruptly left his own press conference.<\/a>  He later <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/9508\/smith-press-conference-take-two\">apologized and finished up.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.php?id=12580\">Here&#8217;s the audio of an interview with Sen. Aubertine yesterday.<\/a><br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Senator Darrel Aubertine has been tapped to chair the Senate Agriculture Committee. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}