{"id":439,"date":"2009-01-22T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/nbc-news-gillibrand-now-the-frontrunner\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:10:00","slug":"nbc-news-gillibrand-now-the-frontrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/nbc-news-gillibrand-now-the-frontrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News: Gillibrand now the frontrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News&#8217; Andrea Mitchell is now describing Kirsten Gillibrand as the front-runner to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>This from Politico.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitchell reported that Paterson had a conversation with Gillibrand Wednesday morning, and that the New York governor has her on his short list of contenders for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand, a second-term congresswoman from upstate New York, has a resume that would please the Clintons. She served as a special counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (under Andrew Cuomo!) in former President Clinton\u2019s administration, and helped raise money for Hillary Clinton\u2019s Senate campaigns in New York.<\/p>\n<p>One of Gillibrand\u2019s top political advisers in her first election was former Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Politico calls Gillibrand &#8220;a savvy political choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News&#8217; Andrea Mitchell is now describing Kirsten Gillibrand as the front-runner to replace Hillary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/439"}],"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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}