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September 11, 2005
Marty Markowitz Faces Muted Opposition in Upcoming Election
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle discusses Brooklyn's 'republican' borough president - Marty Markowitz - and the opposition challenging his seat in November...
But outspoken Brooklyn patriotism aside, some of Markowitz’s critics have alleged that, when it comes to concrete policy, the Borough President is just as pro-business, pro-borough development and pro-free market as his Republican counterparts.Markowitz has never garnered support in Brooklyn through a strict adherence to the Party platform. And some have criticized the Borough President’s relationship with real-estate developer Bruce Ratner, and his uncompromising enthusiasm for that mogul’s plan to build the new Nets basketball stadium in Downtown Brooklyn, at the current site of the Atlantic Rail Yards. One of Markowitz’s would-be opponents, the Green Party’s Materra, described herself as “part of a coalition of community activists who are scandalized by Markowitz’s behavior around the Ratner development.”
“I think he hasn’t made good decisions,” she told the Eagle.
Posted by amy at September 11, 2005 3:22 PM