{"id":5637,"date":"2012-03-06T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T13:48:45","slug":"breaking-judges-plan-for-north-country-would-oust-chris-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/06\/breaking-judges-plan-for-north-country-would-oust-chris-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge’s plan for North Country House seat ousts region’s two Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The proposed 21st District puts almost the entire Adirondack Park into one district.<\/p><\/div>\n

(CLARIFICATION:\u00a0 Mark Wilson points out that a tiny chunk of the Park in Oneida County will fall in the 22nd district.)<\/p>\n

Under a plan released yesterday by a Federal judge, the North Country will likely be consolidated into a single congressional district, known as New York’s 21st District.<\/p>\n

That would mean the ouster of Kinderhook Republican Chris Gibson, the freshman elected in 2010, who now represents chunks of Saratoga, Washington, Warren and Essex Counties.<\/p>\n

It would also mean Republican Rep. Richard Hanna no longer representing a small chunk of the North Country around Old Forge.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the old NY-23 district, now represented by Democrat Bill Owens from Plattsburgh would be dramatically redrawn, lopping off the chunk that now extends into central New York.<\/p>\n

Instead, the district will gobble up those pieces of the North Country now represented by Gibson and Hanna.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear how this plan will affect the fortunes of the top contenders, including Owens and challenger Matt Doheny, the Republican from Watertown.<\/p>\n

The new NY-21 would include more Democrat-leaning sections of Saratoga County, but it would also gather in conservative, Republican-tilting sections of Washington and Warren Counties.<\/p>\n

Other wild cards include the possibility that other candidates could jump into the race.<\/p>\n

This week, Lake Placid Conservative Doug Hoffman announced that he was considering another run for the North Country’s congressional seat.<\/p>\n

This map puts his home smack in the middle of the district.<\/p>\n

One other detail:\u00a0 For the first time in my tenure in the North Country, this puts the entire Adirondack Park in one congressional district.<\/p>\n

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(CLARIFICATION:\u00a0 Mark Wilson points out that a tiny chunk of the Park in Oneida County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,6550,20,4877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}