{"id":3443,"date":"2008-05-14T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T13:40:10","slug":"time_was_they_referred_to_them_as_discretionary_funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/time_was_they_referred_to_them_as_discretionary_funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Was, They Referred To Them As &#8220;Discretionary Funds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05142008\/news\/regionalnews\/et_tu__bloomy__mike_bares_own_slush_fund_110764.htm\">a more accurate label has emerged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Five weeks into a federal probe of City Council slush funds, Mayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday that he kept his own secret taxpayer-funded cash stash &#8212; and used it to reward favored lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s $4.5 million slush fund had never before been made public &#8212; and some council members said they weren&#8217;t even aware of it. <\/p>\n<p>After being doled out to selected lawmakers, the money was passed along to dozens of nonprofit groups supported by legislators &#8212; including at least one with a checkered history. <\/p>\n<p>The largest chunk, $1.9 million, went to Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn), one of the mayor&#8217;s most ardent supporters. <\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, who has publicly praised Bloomberg as the greatest mayor in city history, received $900,000 to help fund two popular concert series.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/politics\/46821\/\">Poor Christine Quinn<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness a more accurate label has emerged: Five weeks into a federal probe of City Council slush funds, Mayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday that he kept his own secret taxpayer-funded cash stash &#8212; and used it to reward favored lawmakers. The mayor&#8217;s $4.5 million slush fund had never before been made public &#8212; and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,68,14,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here","category-follow_the_money","category-political","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","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=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}