{"id":905,"date":"2009-07-21T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/21\/murphy-tackled-by-capital-security-guard\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T09:32:00","slug":"murphy-tackled-by-capital-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/21\/murphy-tackled-by-capital-security-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy &quot;tackled&quot; by Capital security guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Scott Murphy from Queensbury is profiled in today&#8217;s edition of Politico, offered up as a &#8220;newby&#8221; face in the Washington scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the on-line Q&amp;A Murphy says his most embarrassing moment was being grabbed by a security officer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a security officer tackled me. I thought it was amusing, but the security officer was pretty embarrassed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Murphy also seems to endorse the go-slow approach on healthcare reform.  Here&#8217;s his answer to a question about health reform and taxes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the health care debate continues, I think there\u2019s a lot more work to be done. There are a number of things in the plan that are going to save money, but we can do a lot more to figure out how to pay for this before we turn to cash-strapped New Yorkers, who are hard hit already, and ask for more of their tax dollars. We need to have real reform before we turn to taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Scott Murphy from Queensbury is profiled in today&#8217;s edition of Politico, offered up as [&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\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}