{"id":676537,"date":"2010-02-26T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77764"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:23:47","slug":"paterson-to-end-re-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676537","title":{"rendered":"Paterson to End Re-Election Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/02\/26\/2010-02-26_gov_david_paterson_pulls_plug_on_election_bid_but_will_not_resign.html\">The New York Daily News reports<\/a> Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) will announce today his decision to end his re-election campaign amid new controversies.<span id=\"more-77764\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>News reports indicate Democrats have been encouraging the governor, appointed after Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s resignation, to retire or resign due to poor approval ratings and low poll numbers. But a new development appears to have pressed the governor even further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/25\/nyregion\/25paterson.html?ref=nyregion\">The New York Times reported this week<\/a> on a domestic violence case involving Paterson&#8217;s top aide and questions arose regarding an alleged cover-up by Paterson&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News reports Paterson does not intend to resign. His retirement paves the way for Democrat Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s candidacy. Cuomo just happens to be New York&#8217;s Attorney General, in charge of the office that is investigating Paterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News reports Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) will announce today his decision to end his re-election campaign amid new controversies. News reports indicate Democrats have been encouraging the governor, appointed after Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s resignation, to retire or resign due to poor approval ratings and low poll numbers. But a new development appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PZT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}