{"id":7116,"date":"2013-01-02T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2013-01-02T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:55:30","slug":"new-york-republicans-help-anchor-bipartisan-fiscal-cliff-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/01\/02\/new-york-republicans-help-anchor-bipartisan-fiscal-cliff-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Republicans help anchor bipartisan “fiscal cliff” vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican congressman Chris Gibson from Kinderhook voted in favor of the measure. (Photo: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

A fascinating detail from last night’s zero-hour House vote:\u00a0 New York state Republicans made up nearly 10% of the entire Yes vote in favor of the measure.<\/p>\n

The Empire State’s GOP caucus broke ranks with the vast majority of their conservative colleagues to support the spending bill.<\/p>\n

Congressman Chris Gibson, who represents a chunk of the North Country that stretches from Queensbury to Saranac Lake, issued a statement last night explaining his vote.<\/p>\n

Gibson, a Republican, says the deal “provides much needed tax relief for over 99 percent of my constituents.”\u00a0 Gibson says that a deal is still needed to “achieve necessary long-term deficit reduction.”<\/p>\n

(The former Army officer from Kinderhook will no longer represent the North Country after this week.\u00a0 The new congressional r<\/span>edistricting plan approved last year in Albany shifts Gibson’s chunk<\/span> of the North Country into the 21st congressional district represented by Democrat Bill Owens.)
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Republican support for the controversial bill wasn’t entirely regional, but there was a discernible Northeastern slant to the outcome.<\/p>\n

In addition to the 7 GOP Yes votes in New York, the spending plan also won 12 yes votes from Republicans in Pennsylvania, 5 Yes votes in New Jersey, and 6 Yes votes in John Boehner’s home state of Ohio.<\/p>\n

Taken together, this cluster of Rust Belt-Northeastern states accounted for a third of the measure’s GOP support.<\/p>\n

Republican support for the plan was also strong in California and the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes Region, and there was a surprising pocket of backing from traditionally conservative districts in Oklahoma and northern Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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