{"id":477,"date":"2009-02-09T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/09\/gop-already-sets-sights-on-aubertine\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:36:00","slug":"gop-already-sets-sights-on-aubertine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/09\/gop-already-sets-sights-on-aubertine\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP already sets sights on Aubertine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know New York&#8217;s GOP is licking its wounds and regrouping after losing control of the state Senate for the first time in four decades.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenategop.com\/\">It&#8217;s even rebuilding its web presence.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It appears whatever tack the GOP takes statewide will include picking off Democrat Darrel Aubertine.  This weekend I got three e-mails in two days from the Senate Republican Campaign Committee (<a href=\"http:\/\/politicaliv.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/grade-f-for-aubertine-in-fulton.html\">one of which<\/a> was reprinted on right-leaning Watertown blog Political IV an hour before I got the e-mail) taking Aubertine to task for everything from woes at Lee Memorial hospital in Fulton to using NYPA $$ to balance the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are smarting from failing to win the 48th Senate seat twice &#8211; a district where they hold a huge enrollment advantage.  With Democrats alone in charge of closing a $12 billion deficit this year, the GOP will tag any cuts that hurt NNYers to Aubertine.  They want this seat back badly.<\/p>\n<p>By 2010, Aubertine will have to show his presence in the majority party yields benefit to the North Country.  You already here murmurs, even among fellow Democrats, that Aubertine hasn&#8217;t been exactly sharp and demonstrative so far as Senator.  Being named chairman of the Ag committee is a start, but voters will be looking for a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know New York&#8217;s GOP is licking its wounds and regrouping after losing control [&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\/477"}],"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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}