{"id":7352,"date":"2014-02-12T23:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2014-02-13T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:38:15","slug":"im_not_hijacking_this_plane_im_trying_to_save_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/im_not_hijacking_this_plane_im_trying_to_save_it.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Hijacking This Plane; I&#8217;m Trying To Save It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/13\/nyregion\/mayors-judgment-debated-after-his-call-to-police-about-a-supporters-arrest.html\">The Grand Stander meets the grandstander<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The rule is, the mayor shouldn&#8217;t be involved in any way about somebody&#8217;s arrest,&#8221; the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, told reporters on Wednesday, describing Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s actions as &#8220;problematic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you do make that call,&#8221; Mr. Stringer added, &#8220;you do have to answer a lot of questions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, Giuliani has the mayor&#8217;s back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But Mr. de Blasio received support on Wednesday from an unlikely source: former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he did anything wrong,&#8221; Mr. Giuliani said in a telephone interview. &#8220;It sounds to me like he was just making an inquiry as to what happened with the guy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/13\/critics-blast-de-blasio-over-police-phone-call-to-help-free-political-ally\/\">And then there&#8217;s this tale of two cities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Meanwhile, the mayor&#8217;s political allies &#8212; including Public Advocate Letitia James &#8212; ducked questions about the issue Wednesday. Brooklyn Councilman and Findlayter pal Jumaane Williams said community leaders deserve special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To say that someone shouldn&#8217;t call or inquire about an incident is weird,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/on_the_other_hand_now_we_know_why_he_sleeps_so_late.html\">On The Other Hand, Now We Know Why He Sleeps So Late?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Stander meets the grandstander: &#8220;The rule is, the mayor shouldn&#8217;t be involved in any way about somebody&#8217;s arrest,&#8221; the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, told reporters on Wednesday, describing Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s actions as &#8220;problematic.&#8221; &#8220;When you do make that call,&#8221; Mr. Stringer added, &#8220;you do have to answer a lot of questions.&#8221; [&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-7352","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\/7352","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=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}