{"id":69864,"date":"2016-06-15T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69864"},"modified":"2016-06-14T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T21:27:01","slug":"opinion-republican-candidates-reliable-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69864","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Republican candidates = reliable conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=58702\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58702\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\" alt=\"letters-to-the-editor.image_\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>As a Republican leader in Madison County, I can\u2019t hold my tongue when I read the\u00a0debate about Claudia Tenney.<\/p>\n<p>Voters deserve to know the truth about this Albany insider who is now running for\u00a0Congress. Here it is:\u00a0Last legislative term, she missed a staggering 525 votes in the\u00a0State Assembly. You can look it up the way I did at www.nypirg.org.<\/p>\n<p>Tenney\u2019s supporters say she missed votes for family reasons. That\u2019s a fraction of the\u00a0story. She missed most of her votes in when she was running for Congress,\u00a0unsuccessfully, two years <!--more-->ago. You can look it up at www.assembly.state.ny.us. To my\u00a0mind, that\u2019s putting per personal self-interest ahead of her constituents\u2019 interests.<\/p>\n<p>And when Tenney did vote, she voted with Shelly Silver \u2013 the Manhattan liberal\u00a0Democrat who is now on his way to federal prison \u2013 77 percent of the time. Again, you\u00a0can look it up.<\/p>\n<p>One of those votes was on Dec. 7, 2011, for bill S50002: Tenney voted for what\u00a0the Republican State Chairman called \u201ca net increase of nearly $2 billion\u201d pushed by\u00a0Silver and Governor Cuomo. [http:\/\/newyork.gop\/op_ed_heres_how_cuomocanfix_taxes]<\/p>\n<p>If you want more of the same from Washington, D.C., Claudia Tenney might be your\u00a0choice.\u00a0 If you want a reliable conservative, Republicans have better choices.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Ken Kunkel, DeRuyter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: As a Republican leader in Madison County, I can\u2019t hold my tongue when I read the\u00a0debate about Claudia Tenney. Voters deserve to know the truth about this Albany insider who is now running for\u00a0Congress. Here it is:\u00a0Last legislative term, she missed a staggering 525 votes in the\u00a0State Assembly. You can look it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}