{"id":2092,"date":"2007-02-08T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/doesnt_grandstanding_count.html"},"modified":"2007-02-08T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:37:13","slug":"doesnt_grandsta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/doesnt_grandsta.html","title":{"rendered":"Doesn&#8217;t Grandstanding Count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hizzoner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/495746p-417743c.html\">highlights some elected officials&#8217; lack of executive experience<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg lashed out yesterday at politicians who criticized the city&#8217;s school bus route bungling, saying they had &#8220;no experience doing anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A visibly angry Bloomberg blasted Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum and City Council members when asked about the critics&#8217; stance that the cost-saving overhaul is a flop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, you&#8217;re quoting people who have no experience in doing anything, so I don&#8217;t quite know how to answer it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg then questioned whether the politicians knew enough to criticize the work of high-priced consultants Alvarez &#038; Marsal, who drew up the reorganization that cut 116 routes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if those people who haven&#8217;t done anything in terms of management think that they know what to do, they should apply for jobs and we&#8217;ll be happy to do it,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hizzoner highlights some elected officials&#8217; lack of executive experience: Mayor Bloomberg lashed out yesterday at politicians who criticized the city&#8217;s school bus route bungling, saying they had &#8220;no experience doing anything.&#8221; A visibly angry Bloomberg blasted Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum and City Council members when asked about the critics&#8217; stance that the cost-saving overhaul is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","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=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}