{"id":3108,"date":"2008-01-31T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/sure_to_play_well_upstate_during_the_general_election.html"},"modified":"2008-01-31T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T14:54:30","slug":"sure_to_play_well_upstate_during_the_general_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/sure_to_play_well_upstate_during_the_general_election.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure To Play Well Upstate During The General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg is the greatest secessionist mayor since Fernando Wood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/70513\">there&#8217;s not a damn thing Kevin Sheekey can do to stop it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lending lighthearted support to a City Council proposal that the city secede from the state, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the plan makes a point that is &#8220;well taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city sends the state about $11 billion more each year than it receives back in services, an imbalance that is prompting Council Member Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents parts of Queens, to introduce legislation to lay the groundwork for the city to break away from the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe he thinks it is going anyplace, but I think he&#8217;s right in joking about it,&#8221; Mr. Bloomberg said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor warned that if the state tries to squeeze too many tax dollars out of the city, it would no longer be a cash cow.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vallone told The New York Sun that his idea is &#8220;most definitely not a joke,&#8221; but added that he is encouraged that the mayor &#8220;likes the fact that I am thinking about it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bloomberg is the greatest secessionist mayor since Fernando Wood there&#8217;s not a damn thing Kevin Sheekey can do to stop it: Lending lighthearted support to a City Council proposal that the city secede from the state, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the plan makes a point that is &#8220;well taken.&#8221; The city sends the state [&hellip;]<\/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-3108","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\/3108","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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}