{"id":954,"date":"2006-04-11T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_the_voice_of_dr_evil_one_millllion_dollars.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:39:08","slug":"in_the_voice_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_the_voice_of.html","title":{"rendered":"In The Voice Of Dr. Evil, &#8220;One Millllion Dollars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens lawmakers stand firm &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/407774p-345199c.html\">one million dollars<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Seeking support for its stadium plan, the Mets have offered to spend $200,000 on sports programs for local kids &#8212; drawing howls of protest from some Queens lawmakers who demanded a $1 million payout.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Mets pitched their $200,000 offer during a six-hour meeting with the Queens delegation that ended after midnight yesterday, sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Faster than Jose Reyes can steal second, the Council members whose districts are closest to Shea lambasted the Amazin&#8217;s as bad corporate citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shame on them if they think that&#8217;s okay! Shame on them! Our kids are worth more,&#8221; thundered Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have not &#8212; double underline, exclamation point &#8212; they have not done enough for my community or for the borough of Queens, and they need to.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course hundreds of thousands &#8212; if not millions! &#8212; of Mets fans would be <em>clamoring<\/em> to go out to Flushing Meadows were the Mets not there. Of course . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens lawmakers stand firm &#8212; one million dollars: Seeking support for its stadium plan, the Mets have offered to spend $200,000 on sports programs for local kids &#8212; drawing howls of protest from some Queens lawmakers who demanded a $1 million payout. . . . The Mets pitched their $200,000 offer during a six-hour meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blatant_localism","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}