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August 25, 2012
In NY1 debate, Assembly candidate Alabi challenges rival Mosley about Atlantic Yards, but there's more heat than light
Atlantic Yards Report
Atlantic Yards came up last night in a NY1 debate between 57th District Assembly candidates Walter Mosley and Olanike Alabi, but it generated more heat than light.
It begins at about 7:20 (and excerpted incompletely in Patch, which has broader coverage), when Alabi had a chance to address her rival: "You're also been cited as being on both sides of the Atlantic Yards issue, for and against.... How can we trust you? Where do you stand on Atlantic Yards?"
(Here's some coverage of his positions.)
Mosley responded with a slip at first: “I was the only candidate in this race to support this project--to take a stance on this project. It was a project that dealt with creating affordable [sic] jobs, it was a project that dealt with the issue of housing, as it relates to our middle-class families, our working-class families. Now this project has broken its promises. But I do believe that because I was supportive of it at the very beginning doesn’t mean I gave up my opportunity to be critical of it, and as a result, I understand that these promises that have been broken, as it relates to housing, as it relates to construction jobs, are promises that we're going to fight for as we go forward."
Alabi didn't say anything about Atlantic Yards during the debate, though she has been supportive of the Atlantic Yards opposition, for example showing up at a 2008 walkathon for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
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Posted by eric at August 25, 2012 9:41 AM