{"id":444,"date":"2009-01-22T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/growing-chorus-predicts-gillibrand-as-senator\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:06:00","slug":"growing-chorus-predicts-gillibrand-as-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/22\/growing-chorus-predicts-gillibrand-as-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing chorus predicts Gillibrand as Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union&#8217;s Leigh Hornbeck pieces together a convincing case that Governor Paterson has settled firmly on Kirsten Gillibrand to serve as New York&#8217;s junior Senator.  <\/p>\n<p>She points out that leaders from across Gillibrand&#8217;s district have been invited to attend Friday&#8217;s noon press conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Warren County chairman Bill Montfort was also invited through a series of phone calls from the governor&#8217;s office, setting and resetting the date of Paterson&#8217;s announcement. It was an unusual invitation and it made Montfort wonder if the governor was bringing people together from Gillibrand&#8217;s district.<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>&#8220;If she does for the state what she&#8217;s done for congressional district, the state will be in good shape,&#8221; said Montfort. &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of an elected official I&#8217;ve been able to have more access to than her, whether it&#8217;s calling her on her cell in Washington or at home on the weekend.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union&#8217;s Leigh Hornbeck pieces together a convincing case that Governor Paterson has settled [&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\/444"}],"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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}