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February 20, 2009
Markowitz Seeks Bailout for Bruce Ratner
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Senator Al D'Amato is lobbying to get Bruce Ratner a bailout from President Obama's stimulus bill. Last year he got paid $40,000 to lobby for this bailout and other stuff. So what (and how much) is Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz, a lone political voice out there in the recession wilderness, getting for his hyperactive groveling for the shovel-unready Atlantic Yards proposal?
The Daily News details Markowitz's desperate ping-ponging around the State. Sounds like the pestering barrage of phone calls, as the mythology goes, that the BEEP reportedly (in The New Yorker**) once made to get Bruce Ratner to buy the Nets.
...** "Funny" passage in that New Yorker article, in light of the above:
...Markowitz said of his Nets-related scheming, “I thought to myself, Who can I call who has a dedication to Brooklyn, and that has got the economic ability, because, let’s face it, someone who builds two-family homes is not going to be in a position to buy a team and to build an arena.”
Click through for DDDB's imagining of Markowitz's lobbying of the MTA.
Posted by eric at February 20, 2009 10:34 AM