{"id":4662,"date":"2009-04-09T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2009-04-09T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:56:31","slug":"they_need_to_suspend_term_limits_for_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/they_need_to_suspend_term_limits_for_this.html","title":{"rendered":"They Need To Suspend Term Limits For This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/04\/09\/2009-04-09_coucil_members_who_got_queries.html\">it&#8217;s common to ask questions composed by interest groups during hearings<\/a> then elected officials are obviously interchangeable, and we don&#8217;t really need them there for another term:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Nearly half the members of a City Council committee who got cue-card questions from the teachers union at a heated charter school hearing got campaign cash from the labor group.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the 17 members of the Council&#8217;s Education Committee collected $25,650 from the UFT&#8217;s political arm in the last three years, campaign records show. <\/p>\n<p>The totals ranged from $1,600 to $4,950 each for Council members Bill de Blasio (D-Brooklyn), Melinda Katz (D-Queens) and John Liu (D-Queens). <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past, I have asked questions recommended by the UFT &#8212; as well as dozens of other organizations participating in hearings,&#8221; Liu said. <\/p>\n<p>Gothamschools.org posted images of the cards with questions like &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t the Department have a clear legal and moral responsibility to provide every family in the city guaranteed seats for their children in a neighborhood elementary school?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Several Council members said it is routine for constituents or groups to suggest questions for them to ask during hearings, but they had never seen such an organized effort.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s common to ask questions composed by interest groups during hearings then elected officials are obviously interchangeable, and we don&#8217;t really need them there for another term: Nearly half the members of a City Council committee who got cue-card questions from the teachers union at a heated charter school hearing got campaign cash from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","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=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}