{"id":1535,"date":"2006-09-08T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/tough_sells.html"},"modified":"2006-09-08T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T18:51:22","slug":"tough_sells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/tough_sells.html","title":{"rendered":"Tough Sells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eager not to appear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/the_gifford_mil.html\">self-serving<\/a>, the City Council Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/39283\">Christine Quinn is backing off of changing term limit rules for now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In an interview this week, the speaker said that while she has commissioned a poll on term limits, she is not committed to tackling the hot-button issue. She plans to brief council members later this month on the results of the poll. (&#8220;They were mixed,&#8221; is all Ms. Quinn would allow.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the other popular issue of pay raises:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The speaker has asked for a 25% raise for council members, but whether the commission or the mayor will support her is far from clear. Mr. Bloomberg last month offered no endorsement of a pay raise, suggesting that it should be determined by a formula factoring in skill level, education, and experience.<\/p>\n<p>By most any standard, Ms. Quinn is asking for a lot. In addition to the 25% hike for council members &#8212; which would bring their base salary to $112,500 from $90,000 &#8212; Ms. Quinn is also asking the commission to allow the lawmakers to keep their stipends for committee chairmanships and leadership positions. The stipends range between $4,000 and $18,000, but because the council has so many standing committees &#8212; more than the House of Representatives &#8212; all but five city lawmakers get the extra money.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eager not to appear self-serving, the City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is backing off of changing term limit rules for now: In an interview this week, the speaker said that while she has commissioned a poll on term limits, she is not committed to tackling the hot-button issue. She plans to brief council members later [&hellip;]<\/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-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}