{"id":729,"date":"2009-05-03T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/03\/price-tag-for-20th-special-election-4-million\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T13:40:00","slug":"price-tag-for-20th-special-election-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/03\/price-tag-for-20th-special-election-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Price tag for 20th special election: $4 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003108462\">Congressional Quarterly<\/a>, Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls) and Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady) raised more than $1 million a month from January to the end of March. <\/p>\n<p>Yikes.  When you factor in the amount that taxpayers spent to fire up the ballot system and the courts &#8212; that&#8217;s one pricey slice of democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Congressional Quarterly, Rep. Scott Murphy (D-Glens Falls) and Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R-Schenectady) raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}