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September 14, 2006
Call it political grave Yards
Daily News
Columnist Ben Smith tallies up the win and loss columns for Atlantic Yards opponents:
For Brooklyn politicians, it doesn's pay to oppose Atlantic Yards.
On primary night, candidates in favor of the mega-project won several key contested elections in Brooklyn: Yvette Clarke won an open congressional seat, and Rep. Ed Towns and State Sen. Martin Connor held off challengers.
In the closest thing to a public referendum on the plan to build thousands of apartments and a basketball arena, Hakeem Jeffries crushed Bill Batson, an outspoken foe of the project, in a state Assembly race in Prospect Heights.
For those who are looking to see if Jeffries will reach out to work with neighborhood activists who oppose the plan, the quote speaks for itself:
"To the extent the hard-line critics [of Atlantic Yards] attempted to make this a referendum on their position, the results speak for themselves," Jeffries said.
Smith goes into more detail on his Daily News blog, Daily Politics.
Posted by lumi at September 14, 2006 8:02 AM