{"id":4893,"date":"2009-05-28T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2009-05-28T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T04:01:24","slug":"dis-graceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/dis-graceful.html","title":{"rendered":"Dis-Graceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is more &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; &#8212; a mayor that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/you_know_what.html\">suspends term limits<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/15\/mayor-has-spent-187-million-on-re-election-effor\/\">spends $18 million before Memorial Day<\/a>* and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/opinion\/27aweiner.html\">thus knocks out a major contender<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/3769\/bloomberg-term-limits-state-economy+\">a reporter who is doing his job by asking a simple question about what the mayor&#8217;s rationale for running again is given that the economy has apparently &#8220;turned a corner&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>*Point of comparison: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/10\/04\/nyregion\/giuliani-has-a-wide-lead-at-the-bank.html\">By October 1997, Mayor Giuliani had only spent $9 million<\/a>, way back in the days when billionaires didn&#8217;t spend their way into office**.<\/p>\n<p>**And what has this rugged independence gotten us? A whole lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/the_great_triumphs_of_the_bloomberg_tenure_flower_pots_full_of_cigarette_butts_menus_littered_with_odd_four-digit_numbers_and_lawn_furniture_on_broadway.html\">lawn chairs<\/a>. Keep tweaking him, Azi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is more &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; &#8212; a mayor that suspends term limits, spends $18 million before Memorial Day* and thus knocks out a major contender or a reporter who is doing his job by asking a simple question about what the mayor&#8217;s rationale for running again is given that the economy has apparently &#8220;turned a corner&#8221;? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_call_bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}