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June 18, 2005
Dumped by beep, member is back
From the Brooklyn Papers:
It’s a hard battle, fighting the man. Especially if that man has veto power, and many of your opinions are diametrically opposed to his.That is a lesson Ken Diamondstone — a briefly former, and now reinstated, Community Board 2 member — learned this week.
Diamondstone, whose appointment was tenuously renewed for one year June 9, less than a week after Borough President Marty Markowitz discharged him from his 11-year tenure on the community board, held a press conference Monday to shed light on what he characterized as an epidemic of shutting out dissenters. Diamondstone said he was dismissed for disagreeing with Markowitz over developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan.
“I am a former vice chair and a current member of Community Board 2. Or, rather, I was a member of Community Board 2 until I made the mistake of disagreeing with Marty Markowitz about the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project,” said Diamondstone.
Posted by amy at June 18, 2005 10:33 AM