{"id":5342,"date":"2009-09-02T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2009-09-02T07:54:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:54:52","slug":"bloomberg_as_the_blues_hammer_of_local_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/bloomberg_as_the_blues_hammer_of_local_politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg As The Blues Hammer Of Local Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer&#8217;s Azi Paybarah had the presence of mind to ask actor and Brooklyn resident Steve Buscemi about the mayor&#8217;s decision to circumvent the will of the voters to allow himself (and five borough presidents and 51 city council members) the opportunity to run for a third term. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/5105\/buscemi-doesnt-love-third-term\">another opening<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I was not happy that the mayor wanted to run for a third term. So, I do like Thompson a lot. And we&#8217;ll see what happens.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/big_deal_shes_no_aishwarya_rai.html\">Bloomberg can have Shilpa Shetty<\/a> as far as I&#8217;m concerned &#8212; Ghost World&#8217;s Seymour is just that much more authentic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer&#8217;s Azi Paybarah had the presence of mind to ask actor and Brooklyn resident Steve Buscemi about the mayor&#8217;s decision to circumvent the will of the voters to allow himself (and five borough presidents and 51 city council members) the opportunity to run for a third term. It&#8217;s another opening: &#8220;I was not happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","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=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}