{"id":437,"date":"2005-10-21T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/the_sinking_ship.html"},"modified":"2005-10-21T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:32:28","slug":"the_sinking_shi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/the_sinking_shi.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sinking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer cannot get a break; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/21\/nyregion\/metrocampaigns\/21clinton.html?ex=1287547200&#038;en=6653e8869455438a&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">even the Clintons only barely are supporting him<\/a>. Case in point &#8212; Bill Clinton appeared at a rally yesterday to support Ferrer but not before unplugging the sound system so no one could hear what the former President actually said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For New York Democrats seeking to take back City Hall, it was supposed to be a picture-perfect moment: Bill Clinton in the Bronx yesterday to rally voters behind Fernando Ferrer, the party&#8217;s beleaguered candidate against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>But a run-of-the-mill campaign stop turned into a bizarre frenzy after the Clinton team removed the entire sound system during a dispute with low-level Ferrer supporters, who were trying to make the event more dramatic. As a result, a crowd of 1,000 people could barely hear Mr. Clinton praise &#8220;this good man.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Real classy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer cannot get a break; even the Clintons only barely are supporting him. Case in point &#8212; Bill Clinton appeared at a rally yesterday to support Ferrer but not before unplugging the sound system so no one could hear what the former President actually said: For New York Democrats seeking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}