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September 7, 2006
The CQPolitics Interview: Chris Owens (N.Y. 11)
The Congressional Quarterly web site has an interview with 11th District Congressional candidate Chris Owens, who cites Atlantic Yards as one of the main issues that distinguishes the candidates from one another (the other two are having kids who attend public school and experience holding down a real job).
Well, there are a couple of ways in which we distinguish ourselves.
One is that on some local issues we have a different position from a number of my opponents. There’s a development project known as the Atlantic Yards, and I’m the only candidate who’s opposed to the project. The other ones support it. So that allows me to distinguish myself. And that’s a very hot issue right now in a chunk of the district, particularly a chunk that overlaps with Mr. Yassky’s council district, and so he’s lost a lot of support he might otherwise have had because he took his position on that issue.
Posted by lumi at September 7, 2006 11:13 AM