{"id":7758,"date":"2016-07-27T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2016-07-27T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:38:51","slug":"how_did_we_blow_a_golden_opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/how_did_we_blow_a_golden_opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Blow A Golden Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/07\/at-convention-separate-tracks-for-cuomo-and-de-blasio-104258\">Elections certainly do have consequences<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After the meetings and before visits to several receptions, de Blasio spoke to a string of reporters in the lobby of the downtown Marriott, his 6 foot, 5 inch frame folded in a booth just feet away from a bar and fountain that burbled around a dull chrome sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We as a party have moved to a more progressive place, we&#8217;ve certainly moved leftward,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to win the election and be organized to actually then implement those changes, so one of the things I&#8217;m focused on is connecting with my fellow progressives and urging them to be ready to hit the ground running after the November election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That could come from a party structure, that could come from external progressive forces, that could come from a rich combination of the two,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But what I fear from historical perspective is, if it doesn&#8217;t come from somewhere, we&#8217;re going to look back and say, &#8216;how did we blow a golden opportunity.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is decidedly a side track at the convention, with both Cuomo and the Clintons keeping de Blasio away from the main stage. It was unclear late Tuesday whether the mayor would be afforded a time to speak at one of his own delegation&#8217;s daily breakfasts, or whether Cuomo and de Blasio would ever occupy the same spotlight at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo told reporters Tuesday that he was still angling for a speaking slot on the convention&#8217;s final day. De Blasio&#8217;s aides announced he would speak at 4:30 on Wednesday, a subdued spot that almost ensured a small audience, as his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, offers an endorsement in prime time.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections certainly do have consequences: After the meetings and before visits to several receptions, de Blasio spoke to a string of reporters in the lobby of the downtown Marriott, his 6 foot, 5 inch frame folded in a booth just feet away from a bar and fountain that burbled around a dull chrome sculpture. &#8220;We [&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-7758","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\/7758","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=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}