{"id":4031,"date":"2008-11-26T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2008-11-26T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:14:41","slug":"what_are_city_republicans_good_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/what_are_city_republicans_good_for.html","title":{"rendered":"What Are City Republicans Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/25\/call-it-cititaxpayer-field-two-councilmen-say\/\">quipping about taxpayer bailouts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In 2006, Citigroup signed a 20-year, $400 million contract to name the Mets&#8217; new stadium in Queens Citi Field. As recently as last week, the troubled financial-services conglomerate said it had no intention of backing out of the deal for the new stadium &#8212; the replacement for Shea Stadium, which is being demolished.<\/p>\n<p>Well now, with Citigroup getting a second multi-billion-dollar rescue from the federal government, two City Council members would like to see Uncle Sam get some credit.<\/p>\n<p>The two councilman, Vincent M. Ignizio and James S. Oddo, both of Staten Island, called on Tuesday for the stadium to be renamed Citi\/Taxpayer Field. The two men will soon be the only Republicans on the 51-member Council; the only other Republican, Anthony Como of Queens, was recently defeated in a special election. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps a name change is in order, since it will be the taxpayers of the country who will foot the bill for not only part of stadium, but for the company itself,&#8221; Mr. Ignizio said. &#8220;The taxpayers are spending billions for this company to maintain its operations and deserve the recognition for their largess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Oddo quipped: &#8220;Not naming the field after Jackie Robinson in the first place: mindless. Tom Seaver stepping onto the new mound for the first time: timeless. Actually acknowledging the contributions of the hardworking taxpayer: priceless.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cute.<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/citifield\/index.htm\">Citi Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . quipping about taxpayer bailouts: In 2006, Citigroup signed a 20-year, $400 million contract to name the Mets&#8217; new stadium in Queens Citi Field. As recently as last week, the troubled financial-services conglomerate said it had no intention of backing out of the deal for the new stadium &#8212; the replacement for Shea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding","category-queens","category-sniff_snort_and_chortle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}