{"id":997,"date":"2009-08-21T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/21\/big-union-leading-toward-dem-owens-in-ny23\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:58:00","slug":"big-union-leading-toward-dem-owens-in-ny23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/21\/big-union-leading-toward-dem-owens-in-ny23\/","title":{"rendered":"Big union leading toward Dem Owens in NY23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PolitickerNY.com has been doing some great, early reporting on the race to fill John McHugh&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been skepticism about freshly-minted Democrat Bill Owens&#8217; ability to win labor support.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/4977\/1199-obama-ally-ny-23\">website reports today<\/a> that SEIU 1199 political director Kevin Finnegan is leaning toward Owens.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to working with the candidate who is going to be working with the president on health care reform, and we expect that&#8217;s going to be Bill Owens.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Republican Dede Scozzafava&#8217;s family connection to the labor movement in the North Country, Finnegan says he hasn&#8217;t talked with her. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know her positions because I can&#8217;t get in touch with her; I presume she&#8217;s not interested in working with us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Politicker points out that during the Murphy-Tedisco race, SEIU spent more money than the Democratic Party working to get Scott Murphy elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolitickerNY.com has been doing some great, early reporting on the race to fill John McHugh&#8217;s [&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\/997"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}