The last twelve months, it’s felt like the conservative Tea Party movement had faded a bit in the North Country, with far more energy being generated by progressive Occupy Wall Street folks.<\/p>\n
But as election season approaches, and as we gear up for what looks to be a ferocious NY-23 battle, there are signs that the Tea Party plans to play a big role.<\/p>\n
The Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> is reporting that a new Tea Party chapter is forming in the southern Champlain Valley.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the UNYTEA group in Plattsburgh is gearing up again<\/a>, as founder Mark Barie bounces back from illness.<\/p>\n One question for conservative groups (including the Conservative Party) is whether they’ll be able to unify behind a single candidate this year.<\/p>\n In 2010, Watertown Republican Matt Doheny came within roughly 2,000 votes of unseating Democrat Bill Owens — even though Conservative Tea Party favorite Doug Hoffman siphoned away roughly 10,000 votes.<\/p>\n This year, at least some Conservatives are lining up behind Doheny, with St. Lawrence County’s Conservative Party committee endorsing him unanimously.<\/p>\n The question for the Occupiers, meanwhile, is whether they’ll play a significant role in this race at all.\u00a0 A lot of progressives from the North Country took part in demonstrations and rallies over the last year.\u00a0 But will they be a significant factor at the ballot box?<\/p>\n As always, your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last twelve months, it’s felt like the conservative Tea Party movement had faded a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6548,6550,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}