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February 7, 2010
NY State Governor Under Fire for Bidding Wars
The Watering Hole
by Clinton Miller
New York State Governor David Patterson has been criticized by New York State Republicans, The Daily News and The New York Post for his handling of the bidding process for the upcoming “Racino” featured at Aqueduct Race Track.
Is this the first time that municipal bidding processes have been controversial and questionable? How about Forest City Ratner (Bruce Ratner) getting the bid for the Atlantic Yards project when his company bid $100,000,000 less than the other bidder in the midst of financial insolvency for the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority? How about all of the conflicting deals that Joe Bruno engineered when he was the leader of the New York State Senate? Isn’t this how Albany has always worked?
Perhaps there is such an outcry over this selection because the usual beneficiaries of the winning entities did not come out on top this time around.
Posted by eric at February 7, 2010 11:24 PM