It’s all fun and games right now for Senator HILARY CLINTON who is up for re-election this term. Her primary opponent is a T.I. blogger from Texas via Tel Aviv named JONATHON TASINI. You have probably never heard of TASINI, but I give him props for calling CLINTON a pro-war candidate for president. None of the trademark blogger snarkiness will do him any good at the polls though. CLINTON cruises like a brand new Cadillac.
HILARY has got her race in the bag so icy she can hang out and watch ELIOT SPITZER railroad THOMAS SUOZZI in the Dem party nod as gubernatorial candidate for November. I am a registered Republican and I am giving Deputy Governor RANDY DANIELS my vote. Despite the fact that dude has been ‘blacked out’ by the press he might still have a surprise in store for JOHN FASO. Yeah, O.K. Prah’lee not.
In other New York state elections, former police officer and founder of ‘100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care’, ERIC ADAMS is putting his bid in for a state Senate seat. Dude is representing Crown Heights, Prospect Park East, Flatbush and Bed-Stuy. Basically, the ‘hood. Mr. ADAMS number one platform point is to return money into educational programs and away from prison construction. For this reason alone I need Brooklyn to get behind him. Nullus.
The biggest race for Brooklyn will be the one for the House of Representatives seat that MAJOR OWENS is vacating. This was the Congressional post also held by the great SHIRLEY CHISHOLM. I would very much like to see history realize itself once again by seeing UNA CLARKE’s daughter YVETTE win out this primary. Unfortunately, CLARKE’s main opponent is DAVID YASSKY and it’s hard to compete with that T.I. money. In order to secure this valuable congressional seat YASSKY has been receiving campaign funding from real estate developers across the city.
Speaking of real estate development in Brooklyn…
The district that CLARKE and YASSKY are fighting over contains the area upon which the Atlantic Yards development will be built. The Empire State Development Corporation is holding a public hearing to discuss the environmental impact of the proposed development on primary day. It was bad enough that this meeting was arranged only two months after the environmental impact study was released, but to schedule it on primary day seems deleterious amd unethical. CLARKE and TRACY BOYLAND were vocal opponents of the proposed arena plans, but YASSKY is such a big cheerleader that I think he carries a pair of pompoms and he wears saddle shoes. If you want Brooklyn to be developed and not destroyed I suggest you get your azz to a polling station and do the right thing.
I’ll vote for Eric Adams, he has a serious record in NYC. He took a stand when it came to drama with NYC finest. I wonder how many officers in NYPD he has helped out throughout his career. Hopefully those officers and the entire NYPD will whole-heartedly support one of their own.
Yvette Clarke has that controversy about receiving her degree from Oberlin College in Ohio and she’s opposing the Atlantic Yards?!? The Atlantic Yards is supported by Bloomberg, Pataki, NYTimes, and freakin Jay-Z. Eminent domain is in full effect and our tax dollars will make a PRIVATE developer richer. Forest City Ratner Companies has done it before in Brooklyn. Big Fish takes little fish.
Clinton? She’s a politician to the bone!! Wow, Dinkins is publicly endorsing her. I’m still not believing it.
^”Big fish takes little fish.”
Only if the little fish supporters are too scared to bite back. Be a pirahna.
True, true . . . how about this. Big Dollars talk while smaller dollars can’t afford to take the time from work to debate, discuss, protest an issue that doesn’t directly affect their community.
I’m happy to hear that there are a couple of folks that are not selling their properties to the developer. I don’t know how long they’ll be able to hold out.
Well you gots to live in the district to vote.
Which I do.
The Jew York Times supported Yassky because “black politicians are handing down political jobs like a monarchy”
They said some bugged out shit like that. Like people in white districts dont do that?
And you have 3 blacks splitting the black vote so whitey can win, just like the Wire actually.
Im trying to find out who’s in the lead just so I can vote for them.
The NYTimes is a bunch of closeted supremacists from the top to the bottom and their music journalist(Kaleefa Sanneh) is a Hip-Hop hating homo.
A lot of my folks live in the district (incl. C.S.) and I have been cajoling them to push back the candidate of the ‘dog-walkers’.
Yvette Clarke has not really been a “vocal opponent” of AY…if I recall correctly, her position has pretty much been along the same lines as Yassky’s “it’s not all good but I think we can find a happy middle ground.” The only strong anti-Yards candidate in this race to my knowledge is Chris Owens.
^not true, when YVETTE and TRACY BOYLAND were both running for this same seat two years ago they were hell’a anti-Atlantic Yards. It was CHRIS’ dad that was all in for the Ratner development.
Ok i see it is my turn to educate the masses. As an affirmative action consultant for Forest City Ratner Companies, I am in a position to tell you about all the positive things that are being done for the community. There is a such thing as a CBA (community benifits agreement) for this project that is so comprehensive it has set the bar for other projects in development. Did you know that they are providing jobs, not just in construction, but in all the facilities, retail or other wise to community residents, or that they are building community centers, health care facilities, providing scholarships, internships, apprenticeships and other much needed resourses to the community as well? It is not people comming into the community and taking without giving people! Even in my capacity on the project, which is to make sure they hire enough monority contractors on the project, they have commited to goals more aggressive than any project in development. Just check the facts before you pass judgement.
What can I say, she’s changed her position since then. This is typical of the journalism I’ve seen on this. I couldn’t find anything on Clarke’s website about the project, but that seems to be her public position in the context of this primary — if you have evidence to the contrary, I’d be interested to see it.
As for Major Owens’ support for Ratner, I’d say that’s a distraction: Chris has made AY opposition so central to his campaign that changing his mind after election would limit him to a single term guaranteed. Hoping that Clarke might be a stealth Yards opponent — and that this opposition will stand up against the pro-development Brooklyn political machine — strikes me as naive in contrast.
I’m sure Yvette Clarke has a lot going for her candidacy — even her reasons for supporting AY on the record, jobs creation and affordable housing, are solid, even if I think there are better means to those ends — but on this issue I think she’s a loser.
^ Misha ^ , please give us a link or point me toward a resource that has that particular information. I will surely pass the link on to people who need it.
No doubt, Misha, AY would not be all bad. There have been positive effects from the Metrotech and Atlantic Center/Terminal projects as well, but they are objectively pretty soulless and hinder community more than facilitate it, IMHO. Ratner has not earned the benefit of the doubt for the Yards. The closed bidding and lack of community input contribute further to reasonable concerns, and this isn’t even getting into the issue of bulldozing an existing neighborhood.
i didn’t realize today was the primary ’til I hit fulton on my way to the Atlantic Ave train station and got bombarded by campaigning pamphleteerers. can we get some sort of national e-mail or cell phone reminder? my cable is out and i don’t listen to the radio (except for “Legends of Jazz”) so i have no idea what’s going on in the world outside of Democracy Now! and McNeil Lehrer podcasts. all i can say is that whatever race hakeem jeffries is running in i’ll probably vote for him since i saw him shaking hands plenty mornings on hanson place. oh and elvin’s (of cosby show fame) bro may get my vote as well.
JB, you gotta tune in sis. Your activity at the polls will determine the services you receive in your community. I work throughout the city and the neighborhoods that always get shitted on are those where the people retain disenfranchisement. Usually in the Bronx.
The Bronx will be assed out until they build a shuttle that gets rich white kids to the Village in 5 seconds.
What’s good with the positive info on the AY project?
Pass some links on.
I voted.
I cant wait until Hilary Clinton makes me feel dumb for voting for her by saying some stupid shit.
^Start,
I haven’t been feeling the Atlantic Yards project since I found out that Jay-Z was involved in it. The drink prices at 40/40 Club are bananas.
Ratner didn’t do shit for the community with the MetroTech development and here they are saying that this time around it will be different. Don’t believe the hype.
I’m glad that you stepped out. I always meet a hot chick when I go to the polls. There was this little foxy librarian at my polling station here in Freeport. My aim today was to get Peter King ousted from the House of Reps. He is a pro-Iraqi war shitbag that goes on television to spoon Bush’s sacks and prah’lee has sex with little boys.
the links you asked for are fcrc.com and for info about my company the link is the darmangroup.com
Well, the results are in and Yassky was defeated. TG.
As for AY — as DP says, don’t believe the hype. The CBA is non-binding and given Ratner’s past history with honoring CBAs, probably not worth the paper it is printed on. Talk about manipulated statistics – those thousands of jobs predicted? Those are the same 200 low-wage no benefit jobs recycled over a 10 year period. And don’t even get started on the environmental empact study.
This article gives a fairly comprehensive roundup:
http://nymag.com/news/features/18862/index.html