{"id":5729,"date":"2012-03-23T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2012-03-23T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:46:15","slug":"morning-read-hoffman-drops-out-of-assembly-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/23\/morning-read-hoffman-drops-out-of-assembly-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Hoffman drops out of Assembly race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5730\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/23\/morning-read-hoffman-drops-out-of-assembly-race\/doug-hoffman-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5730\" title=\"doug hoffman\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/doug-hoffman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/doug-hoffman1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/doug-hoffman1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting this morning that Lake Placid accountant Doug Hoffman has dropped out of the race for state Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, Hoffman made the surprise announcement yesterday at a meeting of Warren County Republicans. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have to make sure we don\u2019t split what\u2019s going on here,\u201d said  Hoffman, who had received the Warren County Conservative endorsement  earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to tell you right now, I\u2019m going to back off  and I\u2019m going to let your candidate go,\u201d he said at the conclusion of a  speech, drawing a standing ovation from the approximately 105 committee  members in the room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"> County chairman Michael Grasso called the announcement a &#8220;jaw-dropper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman, who ran for congress in 2009 and 2010, was seen as a strong  candidate for the Assembly seat being vacated by Assemblywoman Teresa  Sayward. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"> Still in the race for the GOP nod are Queensbury town  supervisor Dan Stec, Thurman town supervisor Evelyn Wood, and former Glens Falls Mayor Robert Regan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Top Democrat Randy Douglas from the town of Jay announced yesterday that he won&#8217;t seek the seat.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting this morning that Lake Placid accountant Doug Hoffman has [&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":[6550,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729"}],"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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}