{"id":446,"date":"2005-10-26T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/zero-sum_pr_or_the_look_fellas_we_tried_strategy.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:01:26","slug":"zerosum_pr_or_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/zerosum_pr_or_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Sum PR Or The &#8220;Look Fellas, We Tried&#8221; Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports (in an &#8220;EXCLUSIVE&#8221;!) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/56181.htm\">Governor Pataki wants to put the kibosh on the MTA&#8217;s $50 million goodwill bribe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Gov. Pataki is demanding the MTA put the brakes on its half-fare-for-the-holiday plan, saying the agency&#8217;s surplus would be better spent on security and building a new rail link to lower Manhattan, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Encouraging the use of mass transit and attracting more visitors to the city during the holiday season is always a good idea,&#8221; Pataki told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the surplus should be prioritized to ensure the safety, reliability and future financial stability of our transportation infrastructure.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t this Good Cop\/Bad Cop act work well for both sides? The MTA gets to say, &#8220;Look, Fellas &#8212; we tried!&#8221; while Pataki comes off as the sensible one. I like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports (in an &#8220;EXCLUSIVE&#8221;!) that Governor Pataki wants to put the kibosh on the MTA&#8217;s $50 million goodwill bribe: Gov. Pataki is demanding the MTA put the brakes on its half-fare-for-the-holiday plan, saying the agency&#8217;s surplus would be better spent on security and building a new rail link to lower Manhattan, The Post [&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-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}