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August 3, 2009
CHOCOLATE KISS-OFF: JIMMY MACK'S CHOCOLATE BRIDE DITCHES HIM AT THE ALTAR
Gatemouth's blog [Room 8]
by Howard Graubard
Gatemouth correctly calls us out for referring to him as "anonymous" (we meant to type "pseudonymous" but the day after the ESDC Atlantic Yards hearing was way busy here at NLG and we got a wee bit sloppy) last Thursday.
But Gatemouth's reflexive dislike for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn seems a wee bit obsessive, as he cites fellow-pseudonymous blogger J. Cheever Loophole's (no, Mr. Graubard, we're not going to spend time tracking down Mr. Loophole's real identity) post about amicus briefs:
I do not think that opposing Atlantic Yards makes one reflexively anti-development. I just think that DDDB has shown itself to be so. I think a joining with far right-wig [sic] ideologues in their blunderbuss crusade against eminent domain, which the right uses to mask a far more pernicious agenda, proves it.
NoLandGrab: If the Institute for Justice is going to file an amicus brief, they're going to file an amicus brief. And if the left is going to play deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to the abuse of eminent domain for a bloody private developer's money-pit basketball arena, then one can hardly lay the blame for the gutting of environmental regulations by right-wing nuts and the likes of Scalia, Alito and Roberts at the feet of DDDB. If so-called progressives won't reform eminent domain laws (let's remember that the vast majority of Americans find fault with the Kelo decision), which disproportionately victimize poor people of color, then the door is going to be left wide open for Conservatives to do so.
Posted by eric at August 3, 2009 3:06 PM