{"id":3187,"date":"2008-03-03T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/duck_lame.html"},"modified":"2008-03-03T10:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:29:30","slug":"duck_lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/duck_lame.html","title":{"rendered":"Duck! Lame!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner than . . . does . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/72202\">ugh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Running for president was always an unlikely next step for Mayor Bloomberg. Running for governor is likely, and becoming more so.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bloomberg and Governor Spitzer don&#8217;t get along very well. They understand their mutual need to accomplish individual goals while in office, but as individuals they don&#8217;t have much in common beyond liking a coffee shop situated near their Upper East Side residences.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect to hear much talk from the Bloomberg camp about running for governor. The nonstop talk about running for president was a requirement to make Mr. Bloomberg a viable candidate. The concept of Mr. Bloomberg entering the presidential race seemed absurd when the rumors first began two years ago. A coordinated pre-campaign was required to make plausible a campaign that now is not happening. Convincing voters and opinion makers that Mr. Bloomberg is a reasonable gubernatorial candidate with a reasonable chance of winning isn&#8217;t an issue. Polls at this early date &#8212; nearly three years before the election &#8212; even show Mr. Bloomberg ahead of Mr. Spitzer. So in terms of running for governor, talk would only hurt Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s chances, as it could cause trouble with the current governor.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner than . . . does . . . ugh: Running for president was always an unlikely next step for Mayor Bloomberg. Running for governor is likely, and becoming more so. Mr. Bloomberg and Governor Spitzer don&#8217;t get along very well. They understand their mutual need to accomplish individual goals while in office, but [&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-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}