{"id":85251,"date":"2017-10-06T03:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85251"},"modified":"2017-10-05T22:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T02:34:34","slug":"syracuse-and-utica-labor-endorses-douglas-scott-blanchard-for-lenox-town-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85251","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse and Utica Labor Endorses Douglas Scott Blanchard for Lenox Town Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-83860\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1-560x900.jpg 560w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1-400x643.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Douglas-for-Lenox-Town-Council-1.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>Douglas Scott Blanchard, a candidate for the Town Council of Lenox, has received the endorsements of both the Greater Syracuse Labor Council and Utica&#8217;s Central New York Labor Council. Blanchard has taken a strong stance against the Constitutional Convention, the referendum which will appear on the back of the 2017 ballots this November.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We have a process through which we can change our constitution without putting union protections in the line of fire,&#8221; Blanchard said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blanchard\u00a0is urging Lenox to turn their ballots over and vote &#8220;no&#8221; on the referendum. Blanchard also expressed his thanks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I&#8217;m honored that the Syracuse and Utica unions have chosen to support me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I won&#8217;t let them down.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Scott Blanchard, a candidate for the Town Council of Lenox, has received the endorsements of both the Greater Syracuse Labor Council and Utica&#8217;s Central New York Labor Council. Blanchard has taken a strong stance against the Constitutional Convention, the referendum which will appear on the back of the 2017 ballots this November. &#8220;We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[23970,23972,23971],"class_list":["post-85251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-top-story","tag-douglas-scott-blanchard","tag-greater-syracuse-labor-council-and-uticas-central-new-york-labor-council","tag-town-council-of-lenox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85251","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=85251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}