{"id":962,"date":"2009-08-10T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/10\/oot-out-in-23rd\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:55:00","slug":"oot-out-in-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/10\/oot-out-in-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Oot Out in 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Democrats are huddled at the Minnowbrook conference center in Blue Mountain Lake today.  They&#8217;re expected to choose a candidate to take on Republican Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Douglas Hoffman in John McHugh&#8217;s soon-to-be-former congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>The Oswego county party chair, who&#8217;s blogging from there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oswegodemocrat.blogspot.com\/\">is reporting Michael Oot is out<\/a>.  The Madison county lawyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/12299\/mchugh-oot-spar-over-iraq-civil-liberties\">ran against McHugh last year<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/12386\/a-good-night-for-region-s-congressional-incumbents\">lost handily<\/a>.  Another former McHugh challenger, Dr. Bob Johnson of Watertown, remains in the pack of almost a dozen candidates seeking the Democratic nod.<\/p>\n<p>Much as they found in Scott Murphy in the 20th, Democrats need to unearth someone with credibility and &#8211; perhaps most importantly &#8211; money.  This campaign will be fought on the national stage, will be fierce, and very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/4841\/politics-lakeside\">Here&#8217;s an eye-witness account of the process from Politicker NY.<\/a>  He says the balloting won&#8217;t take place until after dinner.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have updates from Blue Mountain Lake as we get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Democrats are huddled at the Minnowbrook conference center in Blue Mountain Lake today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}