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August 22, 2006
Yes, we do requests
Thank goodness the Left Behinds are around to spell things out for the political neophytes at NoLandGrab. We couldn't understand why the Times awarded their highly coveted endorsement to Jeffries based on "star power," so we called on the more well seasoned snarks.
1) Bruce Ratner is building the Times's new headquarters on Eighth Avenue.
2) The Times editorial board endorsed the Ratner project.
3) Hakeem Jeffries basically supports the Atlantic Yards project, with some waffling.
4) A good portion of the 57th AD is pretty solidly anti-Yards. If the Times announces it supports Jeffries because he supports the Yards project, it undoes all his careful waffling and sinks him with much of the Times's mid-Brooklyn readership. Another reason must be found, and in the absence of anything substantive to say there's always the option of saying nothing.Even without all that, Jeffries is the closest thing to an incumbent in the race, with the most money and the fanciest website.
NoLandGrab: We went to the LeftBehinds for wit and wisdom (and "snarkasm"), and all we got was "garden-variety backscratching and establishment politics?" Welcome to Ratnerville.
Posted by lumi at August 22, 2006 9:42 PM