{"id":996,"date":"2009-08-21T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/21\/republicans-to-hoffman-buzz-off\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:31:00","slug":"republicans-to-hoffman-buzz-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/21\/republicans-to-hoffman-buzz-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans to Hoffman: Buzz off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Placid accountant and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is still urging GOP leaders to reconsider their choice of Gouverneur moderate, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s the standard-bearer in the upcoming 23rd House district special election.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman has argued that delays in scheduling of the vote offer Republicans a chance to drop Scozzafava and put him at the top of their ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s coverage in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/508186.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican county chairs in the 23rd Congressional District say there&#8217;s no chance they will grant Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman&#8217;s request for a series of debates with their candidate for John McHugh&#8217;s seat, state Assemblywoman Deirdre Scozzafava of Gouverneur.<br \/>&#8220;Zero to none,&#8221; said Franklin County Republican Chairman Jim Ellis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservative leaders have excoriated Scozzafava, who is pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. <\/p>\n<p>But the GOP says she&#8217;s the right woman to win the race against Democrat Bill Owens from Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Essex County Republican chair Ron Jackson points out that Hoffman is untested as a politician and doesn&#8217;t even live in the district:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When we had an open competition, Mr. Hoffman didn&#8217;t fare well head-to-head with [Scozzafava]. He had his chance, he had as fair a chance as everyone else, and he just didn&#8217;t measure up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tensions between Republicans and Conservative leaders has been rising steadily through the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Placid accountant and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is still urging GOP leaders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/996"}],"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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}