{"id":6429,"date":"2011-03-20T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2011-03-20T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T12:50:35","slug":"term_limits_automatically_remove_public_servants_of_proven_ability_who_are_at_a_productive_point_in_their_careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/term_limits_automatically_remove_public_servants_of_proven_ability_who_are_at_a_productive_point_in_their_careers.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[Term Limits Automatically Remove] Public Servants Of Proven Ability Who Are At A Productive Point In Their Careers&#8221;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/03\/20\/2011-03-20_the_city_councils_dirty_lil_secrets_many_pols_have_legal__financial_troubles_a_n.html\">The Daily News reports that several City Council Members have abused &#8212; sorry, <em>used<\/em> &#8212; their position for personal gain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>More than a dozen City Council members have skirted laws, bent rules or used their positions to benefit themselves, a Daily News probe has found.<\/p>\n<p>A three-month investigation found Council members who dodged taxes, violated the city&#8217;s housing and building code, circumvented regulations to get cheap housing and, in one case, even ignored criminal bench warrants.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>And while the Council&#8217;s 51 members &#8212; one of whom is under indictment &#8212; routinely make laws on everything from smoking in public to recycling trash, The News found many have a history of ignoring the letter of the law.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best thing? Five of the council members that the Daily News identified in its piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/you_know_what.html\">voted &#8220;yes&#8221; on the term limit extension in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/01\/opinion\/01wed2.html\">&#8220;The Limits of Term Limits&#8221; Unsigned Op-Ed, New York Times, September 30, 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News reports that several City Council Members have abused &#8212; sorry, used &#8212; their position for personal gain: More than a dozen City Council members have skirted laws, bent rules or used their positions to benefit themselves, a Daily News probe has found. A three-month investigation found Council members who dodged taxes, violated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","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=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}