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August 31, 2006
Yassky Campaign Cancels Fund-Raiser at the Last Minute
The NY Sun
By Russell Berman
Three candidates in the race for Congress in Brooklyn's 11th district attacked David Yassky yesterday after the lawmaker abruptly canceled a fund-raiser with a controversial architect.
On Tuesday Brownstoner broke the news that Brooklyn's other developer with a bad rep, Robert Scarano, Jr.*, was holding a fundraiser for Yassky. Politicker picked it up and when reporters started to sniff around, the event was abruptly cancelled.
11th CD candidate and Atlantic Yards critic Chris Owens likens the reversal to Yassky's flippity-floppity position on Atlantic Yards:
"Mr. Yassky is a political chicken," a rival candidate in the race, Chris Owens, charged yesterday. "He has done this time and time again." Citing Mr. Yassky's recent criticism of the Atlantic Yards project, Mr. Owens said the City Council member frequently takes politically unpopular positions, only to change his mind. "He gets caught, and then he flip-flops."
* Scarano has recently been racking up column inches on blogs and the mainstream media for exploiting his self-certification priviledges (he was secretly constructing buildings larger than what was allowed under the city zoning code) and for dangerous conditions on a site that led to the death of one worker in March.
Posted by lumi at August 31, 2006 10:29 AM