{"id":5492,"date":"2009-10-14T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2009-10-14T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T13:40:18","slug":"bloombergs_record_deep_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/bloombergs_record_deep_cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg&#8217;s Record: Deep Cuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2009-10-13\/news\/a-bloomberg-score-card-the-mayor-s-misses-but-also-his-biggest-hits\">Wayne Barrett takes a close, sober look at Bloomberg&#8217;s tenure<\/a>, including his agency appointees, mayoral control of the schools, public employee pensions (and massive layoffs after November 3), illegal guns, public health and stadium financing (thankfully, the mayor&#8217;s glory-hogging, grandstanding, questionably effective environmental record seems to be missing):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When I was in high school, and John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were squaring off, my father helped me craft a list of the qualities and issues we should use to judge the two candidates, a score card so logical that it did not take into account the heart or the gut. I wound up the only kid in my class, at a small Catholic high school in Virginia, willing to champion Nixon in a debate.<\/p>\n<p>There is only so far that a checklist of pluses and minuses can carry you, though this one is not as detached as the one I concocted in 1960. I won&#8217;t let my emotions rule, either, however. I believe that the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have covered in more than three decades on this beat. But elections are choices between names on the ballot &#8212; not opportunities to file a protest.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can view elections in a sober manner like this or you can, like me, be content to simply file a protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested, Wayne Barrett takes a close, sober look at Bloomberg&#8217;s tenure, including his agency appointees, mayoral control of the schools, public employee pensions (and massive layoffs after November 3), illegal guns, public health and stadium financing (thankfully, the mayor&#8217;s glory-hogging, grandstanding, questionably effective environmental record seems to be missing): When I was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","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=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}