{"id":961,"date":"2010-10-26T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=961"},"modified":"2016-12-12T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:15:16","slug":"joint-statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-and-governmental-operations-chair-gale-a-brewer-re-termination-of-george-gonzalez-as-executive-director-of-the-board-of-elections-in-the-city-of-new-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2010\/10\/26\/961\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Governmental Operations Chair Gale A. Brewer: Re: Termination of George Gonzalez as Executive Director of the Board of Elections in the City of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While it is regrettable that the Board of Elections was forced to terminate George Gonzalez as its Executive Director just one week before the general election, we endorse the commissioners\u2019 appropriate, swift and decisive action. We urge the Board\u2019s commissioners to seize this opportunity to strengthen the leadership of their agency and the Council stands ready to assist in anyway possible. The search for the Board\u2019s next executive director must be a thorough and transparent process that includes an exhaustive and national search for the most qualified candidate \u2013 a candidate who will bring the Board into the 21st century and administer elections so that no New Yorker is ever disenfranchised.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While it is regrettable that the Board of Elections was forced to terminate George Gonzalez as its Executive Director just one week before the general election, we endorse the commissioners\u2019 appropriate, swift and decisive action. We urge the Board\u2019s commissioners to seize this opportunity to strengthen the leadership of their agency and the Council stands ready to assist in anyway possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2010\/10\/26\/961\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}