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June 3, 2009
Counterfactual: what if Daniel Goldstein had testified first at the Senate oversight hearing?
Atlantic Yards Report
Citing significant portions of Atlantic Yards-footprint resident testimony, Norman Oder imagines how Friday's Atlantic Yards hearing could have gone differently.
Counterfactual history considers what might have happened should key events proceeded differently. So, what might have happened at the state Senate oversight hearing Friday on Atlantic Yards if Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, had testified first, before state officials got their turn?
Goldstein testified later and was given only a brief amount of time; he departed from his prepared remarks to respond to the crowd and the testimony of the government officials in the preceding panel.
But his prepared testimony would've essentially put the government officials on the defensive and prompted state legislators, who seemed underequipped to challenge those officials, with questions.
It would have been a very different hearing.
NoLandGrab: Heck, they should've just let Goldstein, or Oder, ask the damned questions. And next time, put the ESDC, MTA and NYC EDC under oath, and issue a subpoena to one Bruce C. Ratner.
Posted by eric at June 3, 2009 11:27 AM