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August 1, 2012
Bill de Blasio channels Carl Kruger, Marty Golden in condemning heavy-handed, rapacious bureaucrats” blocking development
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder picks up on New York City Public Advocate (and mayoral hopeful) Bill de Blasio's recent speech to business "leaders"...
de Blasio, actually, sounds like a couple of seeming ideological opposites, a conservative Democrat and a Republican from south Brooklyn, who in the spring of 2009 beat up on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to get the agency to give Forest City Ratner a sweeter deal.
Consider a press release from Marty Golden:
State Senator Martin J. Golden (R-C-I, Brooklyn), strongly advocated for ending the government generated delays that have prevented the Atlantic Yards project from moving forward at a meeting of the New York Senate Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions held this past Friday.
Or one from Carl Kruger:
Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) is demanding that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hand over its financial records concerning the Atlantic Yards project in the wake of the MTA’s “apparent refusal to move forward on a project that is critical to New York City’s economic future.”
Given that Kruger's now in federal prison and Golden's had his ethical problems, maybe de Blasio might choose some better role models.
Posted by eric at August 1, 2012 9:32 PM