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March 17, 2010
MEDIA ALERT: Bobbleheads Attack - Doing Lunch With Andrew Cuomo
Atlantic Yards Bobbleheads Take on Cuomo Over Tainted Campaign Contribution
This just in from NY Bobbleheads.
WHAT: Bobblehead Lunch Hour Press Conference
WHO: Bobbleheads of Governor Paterson, Former Governors Pataki and Spitzer, Senator Charles Schumer, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Mikhail Prokhorov, Bruce Ratner, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
WHERE: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Office, 120 Broadway, Manhattan. Outside.
WHEN: Thursday, March 18, 12 Noon
Come to 120 Broadway, outside Andrew Cuomo's office for this highly photogenic event.
One week ago, Thursday, March 11, 2010, the controversial groundbreaking for Bruce Ratner’s Barclays Arena project took the headlines. Yet, just about all of Brooklyn politicians except the borough president avoided the ceremony. This is a strong public indication that Bruce Ratner and his bait and switch boondoggle—Atlantic Yards—is not politically favored beyond close cronies.
Nine bobbleheads, seen last week on television and in the top five political photos in The New York Times and the Washington Post, will be visiting Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo will be asked, by the bobblehead likeness of himself, to do his job for the people of New York by investigating Bruce Ratner and his company Forest City Ratner. An investigation is absolutely necessary because the evidence is nine blocks up the street at the Federal Courthouse.
But first, Cuomo must return the $5,000 contribution he has received from Bruce Ratner.
This contribution gives the appearance that Cuomo is favoring Ratner by his unwillingness to investigate Ratner, or anyone at his company, for alleged involvement in an alleged conspiracy that led to a bribe and a federal indictment of a city council member in Yonkers who flipped her vote in favor of Ratner’s Ridge Hill project.
Posted by eric at March 17, 2010 11:34 PM