{"id":2606,"date":"2007-08-10T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/to_answer_the_obvious_followup_because_im_running_for_mayor_thats_why.html"},"modified":"2007-08-10T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:39:37","slug":"to_answer_the_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/to_answer_the_o.html","title":{"rendered":"To Answer The Obvious Followup, Because I’m Running For Mayor, That’s Why!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Step one is easy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Independence Party activist Lenora Fulani yesterday renounced for the first time her past anti-Semitic rhetoric as she declared she’s considering a run for mayor.<\/p>\n

Fulani had previously refused to disavow her 1989 statement that “Jews had to sell their souls to acquire Israel” and had to “function as mass murderers of people of color.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

But at a press conference on the City Hall steps yesterday, Fulani said, “My comments reflected my feelings about the situation during that time. I felt it important to stand up for the people I thought were singularly oppressed.<\/p>\n

“The language I used was harsh and today I would call it excessive,” she added, insisting she “never intended to express anything demeaning or derogatory to Jewish people here or in Israel . . . I do not view Israel as an aggressor.”<\/p>\n

“In light of that, I am repudiating my remarks of 18 years ago,” she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Step two — explaining how you’re a member of a quasi-Republican, anti-tax party to a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one — will be a little more difficult, I imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Step one is easy: Independence Party activist Lenora Fulani yesterday renounced for the first time her past anti-Semitic rhetoric as she declared she’s considering a run for mayor. Fulani had previously refused to disavow her 1989 statement that “Jews had to sell their souls to acquire Israel” and had to “function as mass murderers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}