{"id":1656,"date":"2006-10-10T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/the_only_thing_in_law_enforcement_that_should_be_pushing_90_is_a_dodge_charger.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:24:24","slug":"the_only_thing_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/the_only_thing_3.html","title":{"rendered":"The Only Thing In Law Enforcement That Should Be Pushing 90 Is A Dodge Charger*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/_trampled_tramp.html\">last time was pushing it<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/09\/nyregion\/09trail.html\">this really would be going too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yes, he is 87 years old. And yes, he is not up for re-election for another three years. But Robert M. Morgenthau, who has been the Manhattan district attorney pretty much since the dawn of time, is gearing up for 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Next Monday, his campaign committee is holding a fund-raising cocktail party, with tickets at $150 to $1,000, and it expects about 75 guests, said Julie S. Nadel, who was a coordinator for Mr. Morgenthau in the Democratic primary last year.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation notes that the party will occur on National Boss Day, a nod to the fact that Mr. Morgenthau has been known as &#8220;the Boss&#8221; to hundreds of lawyers who have worked for him in the past 45 years: he had been United States attorney in Manhattan before becoming district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Morgenthau has not publicly announced whether he intends to run again at age 90, and he did not respond to a request for comment left with his office.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Leslie Crocker Snyder has our permission to use this slogan on her &#8217;09 campaign bumper stickers. (And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/dukes_of_harlem.html\">in case you forgot about Dodge Chargers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, last time was pushing it but this really would be going too far: Yes, he is 87 years old. And yes, he is not up for re-election for another three years. But Robert M. Morgenthau, who has been the Manhattan district attorney pretty much since the dawn of time, is gearing up for 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-political","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}