{"id":3899,"date":"2008-10-20T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2008-10-20T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:37:59","slug":"remember_more_democracy_not_less-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/remember_more_democracy_not_less-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember, More Democracy, Not Less . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . because the great thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10202008\/news\/regionalnews\/mike__chris_made_threats_over_term_limit_134426.htm\">strongarming elected representatives<\/a> is that they can then be voted out of office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The term-limits battle heated up yesterday as opponents accused Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn of threatening undecided council members. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard from some council people that they have been pressured, they have been threatened. I am obviously very disturbed by that,&#8221; said city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who plans to run for mayor next year . <\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers Bill de Blasio and Letitia James, both Brooklyn Democrats, leveled the same charges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were being told if you do the wrong thing, there will be negative ramifications,&#8221; de Blasio said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . because the great thing about strongarming elected representatives is that they can then be voted out of office: The term-limits battle heated up yesterday as opponents accused Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn of threatening undecided council members. &#8220;I&#8217;ve heard from some council people that they have been pressured, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","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=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}