{"id":5477,"date":"2009-10-09T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2009-10-09T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T14:34:21","slug":"bloomberg_is_beatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/bloomberg_is_beatable.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Is Beatable . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/local\/william.thompson.bloomberg.2.1235826.html\">But apparently national Democrats have no backbone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Democrat is struggling to unseat the mayor of the nation&#8217;s largest city, but the national party and its top Democratic leaders have been silent.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee has said nothing about William Thompson Jr.&#8217;s uphill battle to unseat the popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>By this point in the last mayoral race in 2005, the DNC had dispatched its then-leader, Howard Dean, to campaign with Bloomberg&#8217;s Democratic challenger, Fernando Ferrer.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known Democrats like John Kerry, John Edwards and Tom Daschle had also crossed state lines to help Ferrer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/07\/nyregion\/07mayor.html\">Obama is being a big pussy, too<\/a>. What did Bloomberg give these people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But apparently national Democrats have no backbone: A Democrat is struggling to unseat the mayor of the nation&#8217;s largest city, but the national party and its top Democratic leaders have been silent. The Democratic National Committee has said nothing about William Thompson Jr.&#8217;s uphill battle to unseat the popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg. By this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}