{"id":261,"date":"2005-09-19T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=261"},"modified":"2005-09-19T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T13:42:00","slug":"ny-times-gives-menedez-reach-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Gives Menedez Reach Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-on-top-of-the-news New York Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/19\/nyregion\/metrocampaigns\/19menendez.html\"> fluff piece<\/a> on Hudson County Congressman Bob &#8220;hope to take Jon Corzine&#8217;s Senate Seat&#8221; Menendez. The article is quite generous when talking about Menendez saying things like &#8220;<i>after decades of public service<\/i>&#8221; and &#8220;<i>New Jersey will be represented by a rising Democratic Party star<\/i>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, while the article notes two other congressman are looking seriously at Corzine&#8217;s senate seat if he were to win Drumthwacket in November, the truth of the matter is all of New Jersey&#8217;s Democratic Congressional delegation, with the exception of Rush Holt, have made airs of running. All of this of course, is making the assumption that Corzine, a Hoboken resident, wins in November. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the infinite wisdom of the New York Times, the writers have glossed over the influence Glenn Cunningham&#8217;s death has had on Menendez&#8217;s most recent influx of power, which, without, would have left the Congressman a much weaker political force to go after a statewide office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-on-top-of-the-news New York Times has a fluff piece on Hudson County Congressman Bob &#8220;hope to take Jon Corzine&#8217;s Senate Seat&#8221; Menendez. The article is quite generous when talking about Menendez saying things like &#8220;after decades of public service&#8221; and &#8220;New Jersey will be represented by a rising Democratic Party star.&#8221; Of course, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-county"],"views":996,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}