{"id":4756,"date":"2009-04-24T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2009-04-24T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:48:06","slug":"on_the_one_hand_hes_like_a_human_stimulus_package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/on_the_one_hand_hes_like_a_human_stimulus_package.html","title":{"rendered":"On The One Hand, He&#8217;s Like A Human Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand it&#8217;s like, alright, alright, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/24\/nyregion\/24bloomberg.html\">we get it already<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Six months before the election, Michael R. Bloomberg has already outspent his leading rival in the mayor&#8217;s race by a seven-to-one ratio, despite a commanding lead in the polls. <\/p>\n<p>With a fresh wave of television and radio commercials, the mayor has poured $7.5 million into the campaign so far, according to new records obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire, has now spent more than the city&#8217;s campaign finance laws allow Mr. Thompson &#8212; or any other challenger accepting public financing &#8212; to use in the race from now until the September primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bloomberg is not accepting public financing, and therefore faces no spending limit.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand it&#8217;s like, alright, alright, we get it already: Six months before the election, Michael R. Bloomberg has already outspent his leading rival in the mayor&#8217;s race by a seven-to-one ratio, despite a commanding lead in the polls. With a fresh wave of television and radio commercials, the mayor has poured $7.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","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=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}