{"id":6630,"date":"2011-08-01T07:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2011-08-01T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:58:07","slug":"we_are_all_pay_to_play_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/we_are_all_pay_to_play_now.html","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Pay To Play Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;bringing home the bacon and then getting generously tipped for doing so,&#8221; I feel like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/weather_report_suddenly_calls_for_slush.html\">we&#8217;ve heard this story before<\/a>. Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2011\/08\/01\/2011-08-01_porky_nonprofits_gave_quinn_127g.html\">it&#8217;s back again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Daily News review of campaign contributions to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn identified more than 200 contributions &#8212; totaling $126,789 &#8212; from the top employees of nonprofits slated to snag Council money from her this year.<\/p>\n<p>With public matching funds, those contributions are worth $242,055 to the speaker&#8217;s 2013 mayoral bid.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The public matching fund part is a nice touch &#8212; like double dipping almost!<\/p>\n<p>Quinn got $847,464 in discretionary spending for FY2012 (see clickable map <a href=\"http:\/\/empire.wnyc.org\/2011\/07\/bp-stringer-calls-for-abolisment-of-council-member-item-system\/\">here<\/a>), almost a 30 percent return on her, uh, our investment. I wonder which member is giving us the best return &#8212; someone should figure that out . . . and I&#8217;ll gladly vote for that member for public advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;bringing home the bacon and then getting generously tipped for doing so,&#8221; I feel like we&#8217;ve heard this story before. Indeed, it&#8217;s back again: A Daily News review of campaign contributions to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn identified more than 200 contributions &#8212; totaling $126,789 &#8212; from the top employees of nonprofits [&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-6630","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\/6630","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=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}