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May 25, 2006
FUREE Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Phil Guie
At last week's 10th and 11th US Congressional District Candidate Forum sponsored by Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) to discuss "job creation, affordable housing, increased pay for child care providers, and school conditions," Joy Chattel interrupted candidate David Yassky to make the point that, as her City Council representative, he has done nothing to help her save her home, which is slated to be seized via eminent domain for the Downtown Brooklyn redevelopment plan.
Yassky defended his position supporting the Downtown Brooklyn Plan by stating he's for affordable housing and job creation.
What Yassky didn't offer is that most of the development in Downtown Brooklyn has been luxury housing, not affordable housing and offices as originally planned. The current building boom is creating construction jobs, but not the thousands of long-term jobs originally predicted.
The outburst was a dramatic segment in an otherwise orderly forum at which candidates Chris Owens, Carl Andrews, David Yassky, Charles Barron and Roger Green discussed their views and experiences qualifying them to run for Congress, which included Green's boast that, "he had been in jail more times than any other politician in New York."
Posted by lumi at May 25, 2006 7:50 AM