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February 16, 2007
THE EDUCATION OF YVETTE CLARKE PART 20: TOP SECRET FOR YVETTE ONLY
Arthur Piccolo of HardBeatNews.com posts an interesting "top secret" for-Yvette-Clarke's-eyes-only document with the directive:
Stand at the Atlantic Yards site before a large media contingent and simply say the following: “I STAND HERE BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN MY HOME AND NOW HONORED TO SERVE BROOKLYN IN CONGRESS FOR WHAT I CONSIDER THE PROUDEST MOMENT OF MY ENTIRE CAREER. I STAND HERE TODAY WITH OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS AND OTHER PROUD BROOKLNITES TO ANNOUNCE OUR COMMITMENT OUR DETERMINATION THAT BROOKLYN’S NEW SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ARENA TO BE BUILT ON THIS VERY SITE THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE NAME THAT IT SHOULD, THAT IT MUST BEAR AND THAT IS THE NAME OF OUR GREATEST SON THE ATHLETE WHO HAS FOREVER DEFINED OUR BOROUGH AS GREAT. THAT WE FINALLY DO WHAT WE HAVE NOT DONE BEFORE NOT BEFORE OR AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1976. WE ARE HERE TODAY TO PLEDGE OUR UNWAVERING DETERMINATION THAT THIS ARENAS BE FORMALLY AND OFFICIALLY NAMED AND BE FOREVER KNOWN AS ‘THE JACKIE ROBINSON ARENA’.”
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NoLandGrab: Sure, Jackie Robinson would have been proud to have his name on an arena complex built on the homes and businesses of other proud and courageous Americans like Akhtar, Cambell, Goldstein, Gonzales, Muflah-Odeh, O'Finn, Pastore, Sheets, Weinstein and Williams.
Posted by lumi at February 16, 2007 10:47 AM