{"id":5049,"date":"2009-06-26T07:44:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2009-06-26T07:44:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T12:44:30","slug":"are_nazi_comparisons_inevitable_too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/are_nazi_comparisons_inevitable_too.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Nazi Comparisons Inevitable, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/06\/26\/2009-06-26_soviet_schools_if_mayor_control_is_lost_says_mayor_bloomberg.html\">I almost want John Sampson to win this battle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg accused the deadlocked Senate of trying to &#8220;destroy&#8221; the city&#8217;s school system &#8212; and said weakening mayoral control would be like reviving the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, whose control over city schools will expire next week if Albany doesn&#8217;t act, warned of pending chaos. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to talk about what would happen; just take a look at what happens when no one is in charge,&#8221; said Bloomberg, calling for the Senate to pass the bill the Assembly has approved. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Senate passes something that differs by one word or more it is saying to the city: We want to resurrect the Soviet Union, we want to bring back chaos.&#8221; Bloomberg fumed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What [the senators] are doing is just saying to the parents, the students and the future of our city &#8212; &#8216;We&#8217;re going to destroy you.&#8217; That&#8217;s the only possible explanation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost want John Sampson to win this battle: Mayor Bloomberg accused the deadlocked Senate of trying to &#8220;destroy&#8221; the city&#8217;s school system &#8212; and said weakening mayoral control would be like reviving the Soviet Union. Bloomberg, whose control over city schools will expire next week if Albany doesn&#8217;t act, warned of pending chaos. &#8220;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}