{"id":5755,"date":"2010-01-29T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2010-01-29T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:32:02","slug":"this_was_to_be_our_stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/this_was_to_be_our_stimulus.html","title":{"rendered":"This Was To Be Our Stimulus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The make-work plan for the department busy with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/needing_to_fill.html\">quota<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/we_dont_need_no.html\">driven<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_urban_speed.html\">ticketing<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/countless_hovers_under_cover_of_the_street_or_the_gift_down_below.html\">more ticketing<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/the_governormayors_plan_to_go_after_sugar_hits_a_snag.html\">busting people for candy<\/a> hits a snag when both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/28\/nyregion\/28bloomberg.html\">Bloomberg<\/a> and then the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2010\/01\/28\/2010-01-28_white_house_orders_justice_department_to_look_for_other_places_to_hold_911_terro.html\">White House<\/a> wimp out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9\/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would &#8220;prefer that they did it elsewhere&#8221; and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that&#8217;s too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood,&#8221; Bloomberg told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The make-work plan for the department busy with quota&#8211;driven ticketing (and more ticketing) and busting people for candy hits a snag when both Bloomberg and then the White House wimp out: The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9\/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}