{"id":1585,"date":"2008-10-23T19:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2008-10-23T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:04:50","slug":"nyc-term-limits-profiles-in-craveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/23\/nyc-term-limits-profiles-in-craveness\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Term Limits: Profiles in Craveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/10\/ny_council_extends_term_limit.php\">Disgusting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York City Council voted Thursday to extend a two-term limit, allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek four more years in office to help the city cope with the deepening global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>The 51-member City Council voted 29 to 22 to approve the measure. About two-thirds of the council would have been forced out of office under the two-term limit, but they can now also stand for a third term at the November 2009 election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at all a fan of term limits, but the naked exchange of personal benefit to override the expressed will of NYC residents (who have twice voted for term limits) is revolting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgusting: New York City Council voted Thursday to extend a two-term limit, allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek four more years in office to help the city cope with the deepening global financial crisis. [ . . . ] The 51-member City Council voted 29 to 22 to approve the measure. About two-thirds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}