{"id":743,"date":"2009-05-11T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/11\/dem-scandal-elevates-aubertine\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:45:00","slug":"dem-scandal-elevates-aubertine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/11\/dem-scandal-elevates-aubertine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem scandal elevates Aubertine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-contents\">\n<p>The Democratic chair of NY&#8217;s state Senate energy committee, Kevin Parker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/05\/09\/2009-05-09_brooklyn_.html\">was arrested<\/a> on Friday for allegedly attacking a news photographer.<\/p>\n<p>The Dems hastily stripped Parker of his leadership posts.<\/p>\n<p>North Country Senator Darrel Aubertine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/committee\/energy-and-telecommunications\">is now listed<\/a> on the Energy Committee&#8217;s website as the chair.<\/p>\n<p>The post is highly influential in the region, with oversight over the New York Power Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also has direct oversight over telecommunications in New York, a key issue for Upstate communities searching for better cell phone and broadband access.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic chair of NY&#8217;s state Senate energy committee, Kevin Parker, was arrested on Friday [&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\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}