{"id":3846,"date":"2008-10-02T13:58:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/the_saturday_crossword_is_a_challenge.html"},"modified":"2008-10-02T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:03:39","slug":"the_saturday_crossword_is_a_challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/the_saturday_crossword_is_a_challenge.html","title":{"rendered":"The Saturday Crossword Is A &#8220;Challenge&#8221; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . rewriting the law like you&#8217;re the Hugo Chavez of the Northeast is something different. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/02\/nyregion\/03bloomberg.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">that press conference still doesn&#8217;t really provide a reason why this is a good idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that he would abandon his earlier opposition to changing the term limits law and seek a third term as mayor, arguing that the economic crisis buffeting the nation called for continuity in municipal leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is that we have planned for a slowdown in New York, but we may well be on the verge of a meltdown,&#8221; Mr. Bloomberg said, &#8220;and it&#8217;s up to us to rise to the occasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that a third term &#8220;is a challenge I want to take on for the people of New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a noontime news conference at City Hall, the mayor did not detail how the law, which voters have twice approved through referendums, would be overhauled. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should the City Council vote to amend term limits, I plan to ask New Yorkers to look at my record of independent leadership and then decide if I&#8217;ve earned another term,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As always, it will be up to the people to decide, not me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mayor maintained he was still a supporter of term limits. &#8220;You&#8217;re not taking away term limits,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re simply going from two terms to three terms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if next November the economy is in better shape, we can expect that you won&#8217;t run?  Is that a promise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . rewriting the law like you&#8217;re the Hugo Chavez of the Northeast is something different. And that press conference still doesn&#8217;t really provide a reason why this is a good idea: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Thursday that he would abandon his earlier opposition to changing the term limits law and seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,53,64,61,55,67,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr","category-jerk_move","category-please_make_it_stop","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right","category-thats_an_outrage","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","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=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}