{"id":4843,"date":"2011-09-22T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:20:55","slug":"morning-read-cape-vincent-election-favors-anti-wind-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/22\/morning-read-cape-vincent-election-favors-anti-wind-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Cape Vincent election favors anti-wind candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110922\/NEWS03\/709229893\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that a slate of wind farm opponents fared well in this month&#8217;s town supervisor race, with Urban Hirschey defeating pro-wind candidate Harvey White by a more than 4-to-1 margin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That Mr. Hirschey\u2019s already lopsided victory got even more lopsided  when absentee ballots were counted is hardly a surprise. It is likely a  result of a months-long voter registration drive by anti-wind power  activists that targeted seasonal residents.<\/p>\n<p>Seasonal residents who may  live during the winter in faraway locales are more likely to oppose wind  power development and more likely to vote as absentees \u2014 which can  allow people to vote via mail in the days leading up to the election,  rather than in person on election day.<\/p>\n<p>The absentee ballot counts were similarly grim for pro-wind power Town Council candidates in the Republican primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The politics of wind power are fascinating &#8212; and it&#8217;s complicated further by this &#8220;local&#8221; vs. &#8220;seasonal&#8221; dynamic, a tension that plays out in political affairs across the North Country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110922\/NEWS03\/709229893\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that a slate of wind farm opponents fared well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[883,4788,20,4841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843"}],"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=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}