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July 6, 2007
What Kind of President Would Michael Bloomberg Be?
Huffington Post
By Steve Ettlinger
The Atlantic Yards boondoggle boogeyman follows Mayor Bloomberg onto the national stage:
As a presidential candidate, Michael R. Bloomberg is likely to have problems with his positions on some local issues that have national repercussions, like the abuse of eminent domain. He's apparently for it. This goes way beyond the discovery that he had heart surgery or that he jets to a weekend home in Bermuda.
Bloomberg is rightly praised for being pragmatic and a successful manager. He has acted successfully on his own creative initiatives. But he may regret hanging tight with his billionaire neighbor, Bruce Ratner, whose Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), New York City and state's largest developer lobbyist, is trying to build the densest residential community in our country in the middle of brownstone Brooklyn, the enormous and controversial Atlantic Yards project. By being a major, public supporter of Ratner, Bloomberg puts himself in some very compromising positions. It says lots about Bloomberg's character, and it is not good.
Posted by lumi at July 6, 2007 9:06 AM