New York Daily News Columnist Juan Gonzales, June 26, 2008:
Some of New York's biggest union leaders lined up on the steps of City Hall Thursday to cheer Mayor Bloomberg's new mega development plan - the $3 billion Willets Point project in Queens.
One after another, they gave glowing praise to one more giveaway to real estate developers - one that had been opposed by a majority of the City Council.
The labor leaders touted the "historic" concessions on future jobs at Willets Point they claim to have secured from City Hall in return for backing the project.
When asked about the 225 private businesses and 1,300 current workers that would be forced to move out of Willets Point if the Council approves the mayor's plan, the union leaders were mum on labor solidarity.
Even the communist/columnist Juan Gonzales can see how wrong this is when Bloomberg is selling off the city to his cronies. I have to tip my hat to him. I disagree with almost every column that he ever wrote, but he shows a lot of integrity in blasting the unions on this land grab of private property. Now this is the same thing that happened with the Nets stadium. The developer was smart enough to pay off the unions so all of those union jobs in the shops around Willets point won’t matter to them. They got theirs. But thanks to our friends at the Supreme Court, the government feels free to just take the property of anyone who gets in the way of their friends making a lot of money. I have to give Juan props for speaking out against his natural allies. He has balls and I have a lot more respect for him than I ever did before.
He should still be deported but that’s another story.
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