{"id":6785,"date":"2011-10-04T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:04:09","slug":"third_term_meltdown_leading_indicators_unsurly_mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/10\/third_term_meltdown_leading_indicators_unsurly_mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Term Meltdown Leading Indicators: Unsurly Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/04\/nyregion\/bloomberg-testifies-at-trial-of-john-f-haggerty-jr.html\">Perhaps he&#8217;s trying to soften his image somewhat to secure place-in-history considerations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Bloomberg was testifying in a Manhattan courtroom as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of a political consultant, John F. Haggerty Jr., who is accused of stealing much of the $1.2 million the mayor donated to the Independence Party in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>There was no sign of the sarcastic attitude Mr. Bloomberg sometimes displays when questioned or challenged. And gone was the detail-oriented take-charge executive most recently seen during Tropical Storm Irene.<\/p>\n<p>He was so uncharacteristically soft-spoken and concise that many in the courtroom had to strain to hear him, and some of his answers could have been contained in 140-character posts on Twitter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/15\/nyregion\/a-testy-bloomberg-emerges-in-discrimination-case.html\">Markedly different than what took place back in 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But the mayor displayed his testy and sarcastic side, as evidenced when Ms. Wong read a passage from his 1997 memoir, &#8220;Bloomberg by Bloomberg&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;And God forbid one of our people go to work for a competitor, then we all heartily and cordially really do hope they fail. In their new job, they have an avowed purpose to hurt their old co-workers. They&#8217;ve become bad people. Period. We have a loyalty to us. Leave, and you&#8217;re them.&#8217; Did I read that accurately?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your reading is good,&#8221; the mayor replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you,&#8221; Ms. Wong said. &#8220;Do you continue to believe that statement today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More so than ever before.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps he&#8217;s trying to soften his image somewhat to secure place-in-history considerations: Mr. Bloomberg was testifying in a Manhattan courtroom as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of a political consultant, John F. Haggerty Jr., who is accused of stealing much of the $1.2 million the mayor donated to the Independence Party in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","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=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}