{"id":6059,"date":"2010-06-10T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2010-06-10T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:38:28","slug":"even_a_ham_sandwich_could_get_elected_with_that_kind_of_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/even_a_ham_sandwich_could_get_elected_with_that_kind_of_money.html","title":{"rendered":"Even A Ham Sandwich Could Get Elected With That Kind Of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/06\/10\/2010-06-10_bloomberg_outspent_all_other_new_york_politicians_combined_on_campaigns_last_yea.html\">&#8220;Mayor Bloomberg spends nearly $110M to get reelected, beating out combined donations for all NY pols&#8221;<\/a> is shocking, but the Daily News&#8217; Adam Lisberg needs to stop with the low-hanging fruit already:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hizzoner spent $109.9 million to get re-elected, while all other New Yorkers combined donated just $90.7 million to candidates and parties.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that Lisberg <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> highlight stuff like this whenever possible, just that with Bloomberg it&#8217;s too easy.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/bloombergformayor2009\/index.htm\">Bloomberg For Mayor 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, &#8220;Mayor Bloomberg spends nearly $110M to get reelected, beating out combined donations for all NY pols&#8221; is shocking, but the Daily News&#8217; Adam Lisberg needs to stop with the low-hanging fruit already: Hizzoner spent $109.9 million to get re-elected, while all other New Yorkers combined donated just $90.7 million to candidates and parties. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}