{"id":12521,"date":"2010-09-16T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-16T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:46:00","slug":"carl-wood-invites-incumbent-paul-cook-to-debate-series-for-65th-assembly-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/carl-wood-invites-incumbent-paul-cook-to-debate-series-for-65th-assembly-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Wood Invites Incumbent Paul Cook to Debate Series for 65th Assembly District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHERRY VALLEY &#8211; &nbsp;65th Assembly District Democratic challenger Carl Wood has invited Republican incumbent Paul Cook to a series of debates. &nbsp;In a personal letter Wood declared it &#8220;our duty&#8221; as candidates &#8220;to make every effort to inform voters about our candidacies.&#8221; &nbsp;In an election year where voters are said to be hostile toward incumbents Wood&#8217;s invitation includes his assurance that he will make &#8220;every accommodation&#8221; for Cook in order to make these debates happen. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wood&#8217;s campaign manager, Michael Kreizenbeck, hopes Cook will agree to the debates. &nbsp;&#8220;A debate that discusses issues like jobs, home foreclosures and the substantial needs of veterans is certain to hurt Cook&#8217;s chances of reelection, but I don&#8217;t see how Cook can run from this opportunity to explain himself directly to voters,&#8221; Kreizenbeck said.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHERRY VALLEY &#8211; &nbsp;65th Assembly District Democratic challenger Carl Wood has invited Republican incumbent Paul Cook to a series of debates. &nbsp;In a personal letter Wood declared it &#8220;our duty&#8221; as candidates &#8220;to make every effort to inform voters about our candidacies.&#8221; &nbsp;In an election year where voters are said to be hostile toward incumbents Wood&#8217;s invitation includes his assurance that he will make &#8220;every accommodation&#8221; for Cook in order to make these debates happen. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wood&#8217;s campaign manager, Michael Kreizenbeck, hopes Cook will agree to the debates. &nbsp;&#8220;A debate that discusses issues like jobs, home foreclosures and the substantial needs of veterans is certain to hurt Cook&#8217;s chances of reelection, but I don&#8217;t see how Cook can run from this opportunity to explain himself directly to voters,&#8221; Kreizenbeck said.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9296,403,9297,8716,957,43,9021,1998,981],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9296","tag-403","tag-9297","tag-8716","tag-957","tag-43","tag-9021","tag-1998","tag-981"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}