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Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz failed to renew the appointments of five of Brooklyn’s Community Board 6 members. What do the five members have in common? They all voted against developer Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project.
A community board exists to represent the members of its community and give voice to their concerns about what is going on in those communities. That’s the way it’s supposed to work, in theory.
The problem is when that board, backed by its constituents goes against a billionaire developer that wants to destroy that neighborhood and to hell with anyone who rightfully and lawfully opposes it.
Though community board members’ terms are usually renewed routinely, Mr. Markowitz on Monday replaced at least five longtime members who had sought reappointment to Community Board 6, which covers the brownstone neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.
The five members had one thing in common: they voted yes last year on a resolution denouncing Atlantic Yards, the $4 billion development project that Mr. Markowitz has spent three years and much of his political capital extolling.
Mr. Markowitz refused to comment on the reasons for his move, but there certainly seemed to be something about Community Board 6 that displeased him.
According to Celia Cacace who has been a member of the board since the early 1980’s, and whose term expires next year, Markowitz pulled her aside at an event to make certain she knew the score. “He said, ‘I’m going to get rid of everybody on the board that voted for this,’ ” according to Ms. Cacace, 71. “He says, ‘Remember, you are my appointee.’ Every time I tried to say something he totally lambasted me.”
I love the smell of democracy in the morning. Coincidentally it smells a lot like kickbacks and bullshit.
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