{"id":1555,"date":"2006-09-13T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/were_it_not_for_911_mark_green_might_not_have_sucked_so_much.html"},"modified":"2006-09-13T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T18:18:10","slug":"were_it_not_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/were_it_not_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Were It Not For 9\/11, Mark Green Might Not Have Sucked So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/39593\">sudden flash of self-awareness<\/a> for Mark Green:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At a small bar in Lower Manhattan, Mark Green stepped to the microphone before a few dozen supporters shortly after 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Deni has often remarked privately, and occasionally publicly, I am not a very good politician,&#8221; Mr. Green said, standing next to his wife, Deni Frand, and son and daughter. He proceeded to concede the race for the Democratic nomination for attorney general to Andrew Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary and the son of a three-term governor.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Things could have turned out differently for Mr. Green. Many expected him to defeat then-political novice Michael Bloomberg for mayor in 2001, but the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the dynamic of the race, and a late endorsement by the hugely popular Mayor Giuliani threw the election to Mr. Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If 9\/11 didn&#8217;t happen, he might well have become the mayor of New York,&#8221; the president of Brooklyn, Marty Markowitz, a Green supporter, said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was of course that small issue of Green being a lousy politician, but it&#8217;s important never to forget . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sudden flash of self-awareness for Mark Green: At a small bar in Lower Manhattan, Mark Green stepped to the microphone before a few dozen supporters shortly after 10:30 p.m. &#8220;As Deni has often remarked privately, and occasionally publicly, I am not a very good politician,&#8221; Mr. Green said, standing next to his wife, Deni [&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-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","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=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}