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May 8, 2005

Mike Lupica: Shooting from the lip

Lupica on Doctoroff, Blooomber, the West Side Stadium, and re-zoning for rich folks:

The funniest comment of the week came from our guy Five Rings Doctoroff, who told the New York Times on Friday with a straight face that he only spends 10% of his time dealing with getting the Jets and their stadium on the West Side.

But then he goes on to point out that he does work 100 hours a week.

What a guy.

Let's face it, taking care of developer friends with sweetheart real estate deals all over town can cut into a guy's social schedule.

As the News' Juan Gonzalez keeps pointing out, it is an outrageous conflict of interest to have the city's corporation counsel Michael Cardozo - a lawyer whose old firm used to work for the Jets - anywhere near this stadium deal.

But then this is the administration of Mayor Money, isn't it?

His campaign slogan should go something like this:
I'd like to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, but I'm busy re-zoning for the richer ones.

Posted by lumi at May 8, 2005 9:35 AM