{"id":6462,"date":"2011-03-27T12:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:10:27","slug":"remind_me_again_why_we_need_borough_presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/remind_me_again_why_we_need_borough_presidents.html","title":{"rendered":"Remind Me Again Why We Need Borough Presidents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/driven_to_excess_JK3Hww4bDKlX0LJWQ2IDAJ\">has three full-time drivers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In an unusual arrangement, the ebullient beep has placed his three drivers on staggered, 16-hour shifts so someone will always be available to wheel him around town between 8 a.m. and midnight, seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers pick up the tab of $177,372 a year, not including overtime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all within the city&#8217;s lax rules, since the Conflicts of Interest Board has decided that elected officials with government vehicles can do just about anything they want with them.<\/p>\n<p>One late-night stint last month took Markowitz and driver Robert Macko to the Blue Water Grill in Union Square during Restaurant Week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has three full-time drivers: In an unusual arrangement, the ebullient beep has placed his three drivers on staggered, 16-hour shifts so someone will always be available to wheel him around town between 8 a.m. and midnight, seven days a week. . . . Taxpayers pick up the tab of $177,372 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","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=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}