{"id":3216,"date":"2008-03-09T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/remind_me_again_why_a_hockey_arena_needs_a_lobbyist.html"},"modified":"2008-03-09T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:55:26","slug":"remind_me_again_why_a_hockey_arena_needs_a_lobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/remind_me_again_why_a_hockey_arena_needs_a_lobbyist.html","title":{"rendered":"Remind Me Again Why A Hockey Arena Needs A Lobbyist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheldon Silver&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/silver_thats_ov.html\">MSG opposition<\/a>, put into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2008\/03\/09\/2008-03-09_influence_peddlers_cash_in_big_time_on_m-1.html\">perspective<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Garden has hired some of the state&#8217;s highest-paid lobbyists: Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman &#038; Dicker, Patricia Lynch Associates, Greenberg Traurig and Kasirer Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch, a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, reported $633,000 in fees from the arena from 2004 to last year. Silver&#8217;s opposition killed the Jets Stadium, which would have competed with the Garden.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheldon Silver&#8217;s MSG opposition, put into perspective: The Garden has hired some of the state&#8217;s highest-paid lobbyists: Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman &#038; Dicker, Patricia Lynch Associates, Greenberg Traurig and Kasirer Consulting. Lynch, a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, reported $633,000 in fees from the arena from 2004 to last year. Silver&#8217;s opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}