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December 22, 2009
Double Dee Double Dip
Noticing New York
One post was not enough today for the prolific Michael D.D. White.
Might LBJ see some Dubya in Bruce C. Ratner?
Perusing Texas Monthly’s 2010 Bum Steer Awards feature (just out) we read this:
In response to a question from Maxim, the men’s magazine about whom he’d like to dunk on, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron james said, “if it doesn’t have to be a basketball player, George W. Bush. I would dunk on his ass, break the rim and shatter the glass.”
(Here is the original Maxim story: ICON: LeBron James, Friday 10/16/2009.)
If Mr. LeBron has such personally negative feelings for George W. Bush that could turn into a problem for Mr. Ratner. We have commented before about how Bruce Ratner seems to have taken much of his Atlantic Yards play book from the disreputable sports-orientated eminent domain abuse land-grabbing schemes that launched the young Mr. Bush into full crony capitalism mode:
. . . this misdirection of public funds . . . it is not unique to New York State; it looks as if we caught some bad habits from George Bush's exploits in Texas.
David and the Gargantuan and Growing List of Atlantic Yards Opponents
We just wrote about how Crain’s departing New York Business editorial director Greg David wanted to “personalize” the mega-issues and mega-destruction associated with the proposed Atlantic Yards mega-monopoly. The way he irresponsibly whittled it down it down was that someone named Daniel Goldstein was the sole personage responsible for holding up the arrival in Brooklyn of an unsigned basketball superstar named LeBron James.
...Mr. Goldstein is not by any means the only member of a significant and ever-growing opposition to the project.
...This post will supply what we did not supply in that post, a starting list of the plaintiffs, groups and individuals who have mobilized to oppose the horrific and tragically corrupt Atlantic Yards megadevelopment.
Posted by eric at December 22, 2009 11:21 PM