{"id":7293,"date":"2014-01-20T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2014-01-21T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:40:44","slug":"revealed_bloombergs_secret_plot_to_crystallize_his_legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/revealed_bloombergs_secret_plot_to_crystallize_his_legacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Bloomberg&#8217;s Secret Plot To Crystallize His Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicker.com\/2014\/01\/de-blasio-names-sharpton-aide-to-be-wifes-chief-of-staff\/\">And like the former mayor, the First Lady will forgo a salary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York City&#8217;s new First Lady, Chirlane McCray, will not receive a salary for her work at City Hall, the mayor&#8217;s office said this evening.<\/p>\n<p>However, her new chief of staff, former Al Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, will make $170,000 a year. She will be based in the Office of the Mayor, and will be paid as a City Hall employee, the office said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But as they say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/21\/nyregion\/for-new-york-citys-first-lady-a-chief-of-staff-but-still-no-defined-role.html\">sometimes doing the right thing is not always the popular thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Speaking with reporters on Monday, Mr. de Blasio was visibly irked when asked about a poll showing two-thirds of New Yorkers preferred that the mayor&#8217;s spouse play little or no policy-making role in City Hall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And like the former mayor, the First Lady will forgo a salary: New York City&#8217;s new First Lady, Chirlane McCray, will not receive a salary for her work at City Hall, the mayor&#8217;s office said this evening. However, her new chief of staff, former Al Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, will make $170,000 a year. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","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=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}