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July 12, 2006
The News Interview: Eliot Spitzer
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Democratic candidate for governor, spoke with the Daily News Editorial Board on his priorities.
Q: Do you support the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, which includes a new basketball stadium for the Nets?
A: I'm for it. I'm not crazy about government subsidies, obviously, but this is a project where there's a hole in the ground. I see an enormous upside in terms of the stadium, the housing, the jobs.
NoLandGrab: Add 12 acres of Prospect Heights to that "hole in the ground."
Spitzer is using promises of "housing and jobs" as political cover for a position that runs contrary to his whining over transparency and fiscal responsibility for Public Authorities like the MTA and Empire State Development Corporation.
Posted by lumi at July 12, 2006 6:48 AM