In Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City speech, he proposed the following – “let's work with our partners in Albany to abolish the anti-democratic Public Authorities Control Board.” This is a result of the Board stopping his plan to build a stadium for the Jets in Manhattan. I’m reminded of the old joke that the definition of chutzpah is when a person murders his parents and then asks for mercy because he’s an orphan. The only reason that the Board was involved in the stadium decision is because Mike did not want the normal democratic land use procedure to cover his dumb idea. Mike did not want to go through ULURP and require a City Council vote because he wasn’t sure he and the Jets could buy off (I mean persuade) a majority of the Council to approve it.
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