{"id":812,"date":"2009-06-09T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/09\/could-the-turmoil-in-albany-liberate-aubertine\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:59:00","slug":"could-the-turmoil-in-albany-liberate-aubertine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/09\/could-the-turmoil-in-albany-liberate-aubertine\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the turmoil in Albany liberate Aubertine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Democrats search for someone who can win John McHugh&#8217;s soon-to-be-vacant 23rd congressional district seat, the obvious go-to guy is Darrel Aubertine.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Democrat and dairy farmer has shown that he can knock down hefty and well-funded Republican challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Until Monday, he was stuck:  Aubertine couldn&#8217;t make the jump into the House race without endangering his party&#8217;s tenuous hold on the state Senate majority.<\/p>\n<p>But now that majority seems to have crumbled without any help from Sen. Aubertine. <\/p>\n<p>Is he free now to follow his ambitions to Washington?  Have the Republicans played a brilliant chess move in Albany that could backfire and sting them big-time in the North Country?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Independence Party &#8212; which helped push Dem. Scott Murphy over hte top &#8212; is promising to back Aubertine if he runs.<\/p>\n<p>This from the Associated Press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay tells The Associated Press his influential party will support Democratic state Sen. Darrel Aubertine if he decides to run for the seat representing<br \/>northern New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?  More musical chairs anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Democrats search for someone who can win John McHugh&#8217;s soon-to-be-vacant 23rd congressional district seat, [&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\/812"}],"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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}