{"id":6418,"date":"2011-03-17T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2011-03-17T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:54:32","slug":"those_who_cant_lead_preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/those_who_cant_lead_preach.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Can&#8217;t Lead Preach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/16\/poll-finds-bloombergs-job-approval-slipping\/\">those who can&#8217;t lead<\/a> also go for low-hanging fruit and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/03\/16\/2011-03-16_mayor_bloomberg_slams_buffalo_with_quip_about_upstate_ny_citys_shrinking_populat.html\">crap on sad-sack towns like Buffalo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s an awful lot of free space up in Buffalo, New York, if you want to go there,&#8221; Hizzoner told a housing conference on Wednesday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s poke in Buffalo&#8217;s eye prompted a furious reaction from Byron Brown, the Democratic mayor of that cold but proud metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I heard those comments I was p&#8212;-ed,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;It was a cheap shot. And thinking about those comments, listening to them two hours later, I&#8217;m still p&#8212;-ed off.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And those who can&#8217;t lead also go for low-hanging fruit and crap on sad-sack towns like Buffalo: &#8220;There&#8217;s an awful lot of free space up in Buffalo, New York, if you want to go there,&#8221; Hizzoner told a housing conference on Wednesday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you do.&#8221; Bloomberg&#8217;s poke in Buffalo&#8217;s eye prompted a furious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","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=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}