{"id":3210,"date":"2008-03-08T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/wait_ive_got_an_idea.html"},"modified":"2008-03-08T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T13:53:02","slug":"wait_ive_got_an_idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/wait_ive_got_an_idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Wait, I&#8217;ve Got An Idea . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His real goal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03082008\/news\/regionalnews\/damato__im_on_board_for_gov__bloomy_100924.htm\">emerges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Former US Sen. Alfonse D&#8217;Amato, a Republican who all but endorsed Democratic Gov. Spitzer in 2006, yesterday backed Mayor Bloomberg for the state&#8217;s top job in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Amato offered his strong endorsement of the mayor at a private Republican gathering honoring Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) at the Woodmere Country Club on Long Island where Bloomberg was present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;D&#8217;Amato said, &#8216;This is the person who would put the interests of the people of New York first and that&#8217;s what we need, instead of the same old tired politics, instead of people who promise change but engage in the same old partisanship,'&#8221; said a prominent Republican who attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;D&#8217;Amato said flatly, &#8216;Bloomberg should run for governor,'&#8221; the source continued.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion was greeted by loud applause.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mayor said something like, &#8216;Read my lips. I&#8217;m not running for governor,&#8217; and everybody laughed,&#8221; the source recalled.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His real goal emerges: Former US Sen. Alfonse D&#8217;Amato, a Republican who all but endorsed Democratic Gov. Spitzer in 2006, yesterday backed Mayor Bloomberg for the state&#8217;s top job in 2010. D&#8217;Amato offered his strong endorsement of the mayor at a private Republican gathering honoring Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) at the Woodmere Country Club on [&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-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","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=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}