{"id":451,"date":"2005-10-28T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/bad_to_worse.html"},"modified":"2005-10-28T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T18:23:14","slug":"bad_to_worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/bad_to_worse.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad To Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

For mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer yesterday, things went from bad<\/a> (“Even Among Democratic Voters, Poll Finds Ferrer Is Well Behind”) to worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here’s the picture that’s going to send Fernando Ferrer reaching for the Tums.<\/p>\n

One week after endorsing the Democratic mayoral candidate, former President Bill Clinton encountered Mayor Bloomberg at a Waldorf-Astoria luncheon yesterday and \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from the looks of it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both had a mighty swell time chewing the fat for five minutes. The politically powerful picture was snapped by the mayor’s photographer and quickly released by City Hall.<\/p>\n

“The mayor was happy to see President Clinton,” said mayoral spokesman Ed Skyler, without providing details of the chat. “They’ve known each other for a long time and he enjoyed their conversation.”<\/p>\n

One Clinton aide wasn’t too happy, though.<\/p>\n

When four City Hall reporters rushed to a foyer off the Waldorf’s Grand Ballroom, where Clinton and Bloomberg were spotted in conversation, the Clinton aide angrily demanded they leave.<\/p>\n

“No! No!” the aide shouted.<\/p>\n

When he started getting physical with the reporters, Skyler intervened. “Don’t push around my press corps,” he told the Clinton staffer, who then backed off.<\/p>\n

Clinton left moments later for the United Nations, with the mayor heard saying, “All the best.”<\/p>\n

The political damage to Ferrer had been done.<\/p>\n

The photo of a smiling Republican mayor joined by one of the most recognizable Democratic leaders in the world is a boost for Bloomberg in a city where Clinton is enormously popular.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course this was all a chance encounter — an accident — just like last time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer yesterday, things went from bad (“Even Among Democratic Voters, Poll Finds Ferrer Is Well Behind”) to worse: Here’s the picture that’s going to send Fernando Ferrer reaching for the Tums. One week after endorsing the Democratic mayoral candidate, former President Bill Clinton encountered Mayor Bloomberg at a Waldorf-Astoria luncheon yesterday […]<\/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-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}