{"id":744,"date":"2009-05-11T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/11\/north-country-lawmakers-movin-on-up\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:02:00","slug":"north-country-lawmakers-movin-on-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/11\/north-country-lawmakers-movin-on-up\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country Lawmakers movin&#8217; on up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Washington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/54_128\/ci_armedservices\/34737-1.html\">Roll Call is reporting North Country Congressman John McHugh&#8217;s<\/a> ascension to ranking Republican on the House Armed Services committee, along with his reputation for bipartisanship, have put him in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>In Albany, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/2009\/05\/11\/State-senator-charged-in-attack\/UPI-65171242055074\/\">State-Senator gone mad<\/a> has thrust <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/2009\/05\/dem-scandal-elevates-aubertine.html\">Democrat Darrel Aubertine to the helm<\/a> of the influential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/committee\/energy-and-telecommunications\">Senate energy committee<\/a>.  Ironically, this is a position recently held by Aubertine&#8217;s Republican predecessor, Jim Wright, who&#8217;s retirement (at least, until he resurfaced as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20090306\/NEWS03\/303069959\/-1\/NEWS\">director of DANC<\/a>) opened the door for Aubertine.<\/p>\n<p>Another irony: remember the flap when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/11625\/gov-aubertine-at-odds-over-nypa-offer\">Aubertine announced he offered chairmanship of the New York Power Authority, only to have Gov. Paterson say it wasn&#8217;t true?<\/a>  Well, now Aubertine runs the committee that oversees that chairman.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Aubertine will retain his chairmanship of the Senate agriculture committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Washington, Roll Call is reporting North Country Congressman John McHugh&#8217;s ascension to ranking Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/744"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}