{"id":7508,"date":"2014-07-22T23:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T04:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2014-07-22T23:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T04:49:37","slug":"broad_progressive_agenda_with_an_emphasis_on_broad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/broad_progressive_agenda_with_an_emphasis_on_broad.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Broad Progressive Agenda,&#8221; With An Emphasis On &#8220;Broad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get &#8220;broad,&#8221; but by &#8220;progressive,&#8221; they mean . . . whatever they say it means, <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/07\/22\/school-bus-firms-try-to-hide-40k-in-donations-to-mayoral-nonprofit\/\">because clearly it doesn&#8217;t mean very much<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>School bus operators who need Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s help to retain lucrative city contracts contributed nearly $40,000 to a mayoral nonprofit &#8212; but took steps to hide the donations from public view, a Post review found.<\/p>\n<p>The school bus owners were among a number of special-interest groups that helped de Blasio&#8217;s Campaign for One New York raise $1.7 million in the first six months of 2014. But, unlike the yellow-cab firms and the teachers union, the bus owners tried to mask their involvement.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Campaign for One New York is supported by individuals, foundations and organizations committed to expanding early education and to the mayor&#8217;s broad progressive agenda,&#8217; said co-founder Jonathan Rosen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get &#8220;broad,&#8221; but by &#8220;progressive,&#8221; they mean . . . whatever they say it means, because clearly it doesn&#8217;t mean very much: School bus operators who need Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s help to retain lucrative city contracts contributed nearly $40,000 to a mayoral nonprofit &#8212; but took steps to hide the donations from public [&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-7508","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\/7508","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=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}