{"id":189625,"date":"2010-03-01T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/01\/harold-ford-is-not-running-for-ny-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:27:00","slug":"harold-ford-is-not-running-for-ny-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/01\/harold-ford-is-not-running-for-ny-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Ford is Not Running for NY Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess he finally realized that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/02\/nyregion\/02ford.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">moving from long-shot to fiasco<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman who has sought to parlay his star power and Wall Street connections into a political career in New York, has decided not to challenge Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the Democratic primary this September, according to friends and advisers.<\/p>\n<p>After traveling the state on a closely watched tour, he told friends that he could prevail but feared that an ugly campaign would leave the winner drained of cash and vulnerable to a Republican challenger at a time when the Democratic Party controls the United States Senate by a slender majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve examined this race in every possible way, and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion: If I run, the likely result would be a brutal and highly negative Democratic primary \u2014 a primary where the winner emerges weakened and the Republican strengthened,\u201d Mr. Ford wrote in an opinion article to be published in The New York Times on Tuesday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the door hit you on your butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess he finally realized that it was moving from long-shot to fiasco: Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman who has sought to parlay his star power and Wall Street connections into a political career in New York, has decided not to challenge Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the Democratic primary this September, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}