{"id":6676,"date":"2013-03-10T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2013-03-10T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:08:55","slug":"get-the-barf-bag-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"Get the barf bag ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be really nice if someone kicked Mayor Bloomberg and his megalomaniacal instincts out of office as Mayor of New York, as his tyrannical edicts extend beyond the boundary of his kingdom &#8211; transfats, sugary drinks, gun control, light bulbs, smoking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Christine Quinn has announced that she wants the job.  She is currently the President of the New York City Council.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christine Quinn Launches Her NYC Mayoral Campaign\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCsG_84-Y7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She starts by telling us her father was a shop steward in a union and her mom worked for Catholic Social Services, a recipient of a ton of government social welfare handouts.   Her mom had great health insurance from the union, but still died of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She mentions in passing that she is a lesbian and has a &#8220;partner&#8221;.  Her &#8220;job&#8221; is she was a community organizer in New York City&#8217;s anti-landlord housing fairness movement &#8211; including rent control that stopped new private housing construction in its tracks, leading to a housing shortage and ultimately higher prices, while people held onto rent stabilized housing they didn&#8217;t live in.<\/p>\n<p>Get the reusable green plastic bag handy before pressing the Play button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be really nice if someone kicked Mayor Bloomberg and his megalomaniacal instincts out of office as Mayor of New York, as his tyrannical edicts extend beyond the boundary of his kingdom &#8211; transfats, sugary drinks, gun control, light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,108,119,72,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-collapse-of-america","category-gun-ownership","category-unauthorized-food","category-war-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}