{"id":1295,"date":"2006-07-14T07:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/well_thats_a_relief.html"},"modified":"2006-07-14T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T15:42:58","slug":"well_thats_a_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/well_thats_a_re.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, That&#8217;s A Relief!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could interpret <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/poll__white_candidate_has_right_to_run_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm\">this<\/a> the way the Post seems to &#8212; or you can view it as shocking that 39 percent of New Yorkers actually feel this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Most voters don&#8217;t think black politicians in a predominately black Brooklyn district should try to keep a white candidate out of the race, according to a poll released yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The race to fill Rep. Major Owens&#8217; 11th District seat has been overshadowed by efforts by some black leaders to oppose the candidacy of Councilman David Yassky, who is white.<\/p>\n<p>But a Quinnipiac poll of voters across the city shows that 61 percent don&#8217;t think Yassky should be discouraged from running just because he is white.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also found that 16 percent of New Yorkers had hypocritical double standards:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>And 77 percent of voters say they would oppose a group of white politicians&#8217; trying to prevent a black candidate from running in a white neighborhood.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could interpret this the way the Post seems to &#8212; or you can view it as shocking that 39 percent of New Yorkers actually feel this way: Most voters don&#8217;t think black politicians in a predominately black Brooklyn district should try to keep a white candidate out of the race, according to a poll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}