{"id":986,"date":"2006-04-19T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/and_we_should_photograph_their_license_plates_while_were_at_it.html"},"modified":"2006-04-19T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:42:01","slug":"and_we_should_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/and_we_should_p.html","title":{"rendered":"And We Should Photograph Their License Plates While We&#8217;re At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Speaker Christine Quinn goes all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/actor_stephen_b.html\">Stephen Baldwin<\/a> on Wal-Mart, making it clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/409984p-346942c.html\">New Yorkers should continue to drive to Jersey in order to shop there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cost-cutting colossus Wal-Mart is not welcome in New York at any price, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn declared yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want Wal-Mart in the City of New York unless they change their corporate behavior,&#8221; said Quinn (D-Manhattan), eliciting applause from the crowd at a breakfast forum in midtown Manhattan sponsored by Crain&#8217;s Business New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is well documented across the country that Wal-Mart frequently uses the public insurance programs of the cities they are in as their own health insurance programs,&#8221; Quinn charged. &#8220;We can&#8217;t put that additional strain on our Health and Hospitals Corp., which is working as hard as it can to take care of uninsured New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Speaker Christine Quinn goes all Stephen Baldwin on Wal-Mart, making it clear that New Yorkers should continue to drive to Jersey in order to shop there: Cost-cutting colossus Wal-Mart is not welcome in New York at any price, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn declared yesterday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want Wal-Mart in the City of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}