{"id":3991,"date":"2008-11-19T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2008-11-19T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:54:19","slug":"third_term_what_about_a_second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/third_term_what_about_a_second.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Term? What About A Second?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a matter of fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2008-11-19\/news\/the-transformation-of-mike-bloomberg\">I was thinking this<\/a>. Thanks for bringing it up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As thankful as the city is for all Mayor Mike accomplished after 9\/11, that was nearly a full term ago. Now, he&#8217;s decided he wants a third term, even though he still owes us a second.<\/p>\n<p>Even his strongest allies have a hard time naming a memorable achievement from Bloomberg&#8217;s second term &#8212; beyond his sparking a national gun-control campaign. Instead, he was fixated for most of the last two years by an always-improbable, yet ballyhooed pursuit of the presidency, followed by a largely unnoticed, two-month-long audition for the consolation prize of vice president.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most sordid performances by a city executive in modern history, Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey appeared on NY1 in May to declare that &#8220;the person who picks Mayor Bloomberg as their vice-presidential candidate wins the election,&#8221; partly because Bloomberg would &#8220;help finance a campaign&#8221; with &#8220;between zero and a billion&#8221; dollars. This televised and indiscriminate bribe offer generated no takers and, more remarkably, drew not one word of fire from the city media.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, Bloomberg acknowledged that he&#8217;d asked a pollster to see what voters thought about extending term limits so he could run again.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Annotation: Wayne Barrett writes the best, most complete history of how this all happened. The op-ed co-optation, the charitable bribes, the &#8220;lack of time&#8221; to prepare a referendum, the City Council treachery, the misuse of the worldwide financial crisis to gin up a reason to run again and much, much more; bookmark this or clip it and put it in your scrapbook . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a matter of fact, I was thinking this. Thanks for bringing it up: As thankful as the city is for all Mayor Mike accomplished after 9\/11, that was nearly a full term ago. Now, he&#8217;s decided he wants a third term, even though he still owes us a second. Even his strongest allies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}