{"id":5084,"date":"2009-07-06T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2009-07-06T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:06:24","slug":"mayor_wraps_up_support_of_important_law_order_extra_constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/mayor_wraps_up_support_of_important_law_order_extra_constituency.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Wraps Up Support Of Important Law &#038; Order Extra Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax credits (although as of this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/03\/arts\/03arts-TAXCREDITFUN_BRF.html\">temporarily tenuous<\/a>) have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/07\/06\/2009-07-06_show_of_fauxce_the_cops_are_real__but_the_car_and_uniforms_not_in_bloomy_ad.html\">really paid off<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The only thing Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s new tough-on-crime ad is missing from &#8220;Law &#038; Order&#8221; is that goofy noise you hear when they change scenes. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s new commercial features him chatting up authentic-looking police officers whose insignia and patrol car identify them as members of the NYPD&#8217;s 27th Precinct. <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD has no 27th Precinct &#8212; except on the long-running crime show. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker says the officers in the spot are off-duty cops &#8212; although not in official uniforms &#8212; who volunteered to appear in the ad. <\/p>\n<p>Government workers and property can&#8217;t be used for political purposes, she said, so the campaign rented the fake NYPD uniforms and squad car. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Bloomberg&#8217;s new ads touting his support of public schools were actually shot in the private Xaverian High School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax credits (although as of this morning temporarily tenuous) have really paid off: The only thing Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s new tough-on-crime ad is missing from &#8220;Law &#038; Order&#8221; is that goofy noise you hear when they change scenes. Bloomberg&#8217;s new commercial features him chatting up authentic-looking police officers whose insignia and patrol car identify them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_care_if_youre_filming_youre_in_my_goddamn_way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","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=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}