{"id":146,"date":"2005-02-24T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/grandstanding_or_what_not_to_say_to_a_bunch_of_angry_ironworkers.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:05:07","slug":"grandstanding_o_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/grandstanding_o_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Grandstanding (Or, What Not to Say to a Bunch of Angry Ironworkers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner convened a press conference to outline his ideas for the city’s future only to be met by a counterprotest from a group of ironworkers looking for work<\/a>, in a manner of speaking:<\/p>\n

Ironworkers crashed a news conference of mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner held on the steps of City Hall yesterday, taunting the congressman over his opposition to the planned West Side stadium.<\/p>\n

“Tony, Tony!” they shouted over and over. “Stadium yes, Weiner no!”<\/p>\n

Weiner scheduled the event to issue a booklet spelling out his campaign of “ideas.” But most of the press questions focused on his opposition to the Bloomberg-backed Manhattan stadium plan.<\/p>\n

Weiner wants the stadium to be built in Queens, near Shea Stadium.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Short of having my personal life exposed for all to see by the Post, the second worst thing I can imagine is to be bumrushed by a bunch of pissed off union guys. I live in fear that inflatable rat:<\/p>\n

\"Union<\/p>\n

Still, it wouldn’t occur to me in a million years to try to drown them out with an alternative chant, as apparently happened with Representative Weiner:<\/p>\n

After his news conference, Weiner tried to speak to the demonstrators, who repeatedly drowned him out with chants of “Build it now!”<\/p>\n

He answered with chants of “Jets in Queens, Jets in Queens!” before giving up.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Jets in Queens.” Hmm, has a ring to it. Not! Dude, they tried that already<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner convened a press conference to outline his ideas for the city’s future only to be met by a counterprotest from a group of ironworkers looking for work, in a manner of speaking: Ironworkers crashed a news conference of mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner held on the steps of City Hall yesterday, taunting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}