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No, what we really need is a new and snazzy Yankee Stadium

By Bouldin
Created 19.06.2008 - 08:07

So, what's your top fiscal priority? Maybe schools for those thousands of kids in Brooklyn that don't have a seat in one? How about affordable housing? Maybe some infrastructure spending on the increasingly ramshackle MTA network? Or, to leave the City behind, how about we hook up the disadvantaged regions of upstate New York to broadband internet access?

What we don't need is another $350,000,000 in tax-free financing dedicated to the destruction of Yankee Stadium and its replacement by a new and vaster complex littered with VIP skyboxes that ordinary people will never see the inside of. But that's exactly what your mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is pushing for in Washington.

The Working Families Party is saying "Haha, no" to the idea. You can add your voice to theirs by going here [1]. Because, you know, it's not as if George Steinbrenner and his stable of millionaires are panhandling for cash in the subway or anything like that.


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