{"id":70194,"date":"2016-06-22T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70194"},"modified":"2016-06-22T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T03:11:11","slug":"opinion-supports-phillips-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70194","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Supports Phillips for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70195\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70195\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor-300x218.gif?resize=300%2C218\" alt=\"letter-to-editor\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor.gif?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor.gif?resize=150%2C109&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have three Republican candidates vying to represent us in the 22nd district. Two are lawyers, and George Phillips is a history teacher and dean of students in a Binghamton-area private high school. Lawyer and current State Representative Claudia Tenney has a record of missing more than 400 votes in Albany and stated she did not take out a legal suit against George Phillips; however, court transcripts state otherwise.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lawyer Steve Wells appears to be a RINO (Republican In Name Only) having given Gov. Andrew\u00a0Cuomo more than $10,000 in campaign support. We need honesty and integrity\u00a0 in Washington, not those who pay to play and refute court records.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">George Phillips will bring to Washington a deep understanding of our Democratic principles and a wealth of Upstate common sense. He has pulled together a well-founded plan to bring back jobs to upstate NY. He strongly defends our right to bear arms and is an advocate for our nation&#8217;s veterans. Your vote for George Phillips <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_63570880\"><span class=\"aQJ\">June 28<\/span><\/span>\u00a0will ensure that we will have a man of high moral standards in Washington representing us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">John Carroll, Virgil<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: We have three Republican candidates vying to represent us in the 22nd district. Two are lawyers, and George Phillips is a history teacher and dean of students in a Binghamton-area private high school. Lawyer and current State Representative Claudia Tenney has a record of missing more than 400 votes in Albany and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/letter-to-editor.gif?fit=342%2C248&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-iga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70194","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=70194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}