{"id":693,"date":"2009-04-20T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/20\/will-we-hear-from-assemblyman-jim-tedisco\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T12:39:00","slug":"will-we-hear-from-assemblyman-jim-tedisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/20\/will-we-hear-from-assemblyman-jim-tedisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Will we hear from Assemblyman Jim Tedisco?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has been largely mum about the legal fight over the 20th congressional district race.  His attorney, Jim Walsh, has done the talking for a week now.<\/p>\n<p>But as Tedisco&#8217;s path to victory grows more and more tenuous, we need to hear from the candidate. <\/p>\n<p>As a veteran Assemblyman, Tedisco knows just how important it is that this House district have representation, especially now when Federal stimulus money is being dolled out.<\/p>\n<p>If he has a clear argument for prolonging the court battle, he needs to make it quickly. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis &#8212; a Republican &#8212; told the conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/19\/gop-holds-out-hope-in-house-race\/\">Washington Times<\/a> newspaper:  &#8220;We lost the special election in New York. It&#8217;s gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Times described Davis, until recently the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, as &#8220;a veteran election vote-counter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis &#8212; and a growing chorus of voices across the political spectrum &#8212; may be wrong.  Jim Tedisco may be the legitimate winner in the 20th House race.<\/p>\n<p>But he needs to show his cards now &#8212; as in today.  He needs to explain his motives and outline a plausible path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>If he can&#8217;t, then it&#8217;s time to accept the decision of the people (Democrat Scott Murphy currently leads by 273 votes) and start gearing up for 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has been largely mum about the legal fight over the 20th congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}