{"id":3480,"date":"2008-06-04T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2008-06-04T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T13:18:58","slug":"the_hugo_chavez_of_the_northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/the_hugo_chavez_of_the_northeast.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hugo Chavez Of The Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06042008\/news\/regionalnews\/mikes_poll_sizing_up_3rd_term_113887.htm\">&#8220;Not surprisingly, the poll showed little sentiment among voters for overturning the term-limits law&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg, who has repeatedly denied interest in running for governor or extending term limits, has conducted a poll that includes questions about changing term limits &#8212; a move that would allow him to run for re-election &#8212; as well as his chances of winning a race for the statehouse, sources said last night. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know Mike Bloomberg,&#8221; said one source. &#8220;Data doesn&#8217;t determine the answers, but you can&#8217;t do anything without data.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Post first reported in April that Bloomberg was exploring a possible third term &#8212; a story immediately denied by mayoral aides. <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the poll showed little sentiment among voters for overturning the term-limits law that will force Bloomberg and other city officials to leave office on Dec. 31, 2009.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not surprisingly, the poll showed little sentiment among voters for overturning the term-limits law&#8221;: Mayor Bloomberg, who has repeatedly denied interest in running for governor or extending term limits, has conducted a poll that includes questions about changing term limits &#8212; a move that would allow him to run for re-election &#8212; as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","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=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}