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August 6, 2008
De Blasio Runs as a One-Man Coalition
But will it fly? Mr. Post-racial, meet Charles Barron
The NY Observer
by Katharine Jose
In a profile of City Councilman Bill de Blasio, the candidate for Brooklyn Borough President's only declared opponent, fellow Councilman Charles Barron, cites Atlantic Yards as an issue delineating their respective candidacies.
“Bill, I think, has went along to get along more than I was hoping he would do, because I considered him, when I first came in [to the Council], as a progressive like me,” he said. “But I’ve been very disappointed in a lot of decisions he’s made.”
As examples, Mr. Barron cited Mr. de Blasio’s initial support of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project and his vote against renaming part of a Brooklyn street for black nationalist Sonny Carson, which Mr. Barron says was about the community’s right to self-determination.
Mr. de Blasio said, in essence, that he has no idea what Mr. Barron is talking about. “I think I’m unusually consistent,” he said, after saying that he didn’t really want to comment. (“I’m really, really focused on trying to not make this a campaign of people making allegations and then responding to other people’s allegations,” he said.)
Posted by eric at August 6, 2008 8:21 AM