{"id":3846,"date":"2011-04-18T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2011-04-18T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:58:17","slug":"the-best-damn-mayor-this-country-has-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"The best damn mayor this country has ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-daley-tribute-0417-20110416,0,2286728.story\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Mike on\u00a0Mayor Richard Daley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_M._Daley\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Richard Daley<\/a> and his wife, Maggie, took a bow for their stewardship of the city at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Art Institute of Chicago<\/a> fundraiser held Friday night in their honor &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg<\/a> called Daley &#8220;<strong>the best damn mayor this country has ever seen<\/strong>&#8221; during post-dinner remarks &#8230; <strong>Bloomberg pointed to Daley initiatives on handguns<\/strong>, education, the environment and the arts that he said he has happily copied in New York &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D3846&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3846\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3846\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=3846\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Mike on\u00a0Mayor Richard Daley: &#8220;Mayor Richard Daley and his wife, Maggie, took a bow for their stewardship of the city at an Art Institute of Chicago fundraiser held Friday night in their honor &#8230; 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