{"id":7529,"date":"2014-09-25T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2014-09-25T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:06:27","slug":"nelson_de_bono_mayor_to_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/nelson_de_bono_mayor_to_the_world.html","title":{"rendered":"Nelson De Bono, Mayor To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because if there’s one thing voters value, it’s courageously traveling abroad to raise your international profile and speak platitudes to foreign audiences<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, a virtual unknown not so long ago, is now determined to cultivate a profile on the international stage. And Wednesday brought his biggest foreign splash yet, a trans-Atlantic trip to Manchester, England, where Mr. de Blasio urged Labour Party leaders to adopt his theme of income inequality as they seek to retake 10 Downing Street next year.<\/p>\n

Swapping out garbage pickup in Queens for the rarefied air of European politics can be a delicate balance for a mayor, barely nine months into the job, trying to run a city whose social problems are far from solved. Mr. de Blasio’s advisers say he remains focused on municipal matters above all else.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That you can accomplish all this while keeping a deft handle on things back home<\/a> is even more inspiring:<\/p>\n

A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2, the winter-weather prognosticator died of internal injuries — and then the coverup began, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Staten Island Zoo officials went to great lengths to hide the death from the public and keep secret the fact that “Chuck” was actually “Charlotte,” a female imposter, sources said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The stand-in was found dead in her enclosure at the Staten Island Zoo on Feb. 9 — and a necropsy determined she died from “acute internal injuries,” sources said.<\/p>\n

She had fallen nearly 6-feet when the mayor lost his grip during the Groundhog Day photo-op. Sources said her injuries were consistent with a fall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because if there’s one thing voters value, it’s courageously traveling abroad to raise your international profile and speak platitudes to foreign audiences: Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, a virtual unknown not so long ago, is now determined to cultivate a profile on the international stage. And Wednesday brought his biggest foreign splash yet, […]<\/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-7529","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\/7529","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=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}