Hillary Clinton Betrays Brooklyn at Grass Roots by Amity Shlaes

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[via Bloomberg.com: Opinion | Hillary Clinton Betrays Brooklyn at Grass Roots]:

In an expansive interview with the local papers at the Sunset Park Senior Center last month, Clinton explained her views. ``Public land should be public land,'' the Brooklyn Paper, a weekly, reported her as saying. ``If parks had to be self-sustaining, would anybody have ever built a park?'' Another paper reported Clinton as saying that ``by definition, a park should be enjoyed for recreation.''

Clinton said it was a ``a little disingenuous'' to build luxury condos, concluding, ``I think we can do better than that.''

She is running for re-election, and she had just finished reading the autobiography of a Kenyan Nobel Prize winner, the environmentalist Wangari Muta Maathai. Clinton said of Maathai that ``one of her great accomplishments was stopping luxury housing in Uhuru Park in Nairobi.''

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.... within a few days, Clinton had adjusted. In a mid-August letter to Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp., she wrote of the importance of a ``revenue stream'' for such parks, saying, ``I do not support legal action to oppose the park.'' The senator didn't give a reason for her transformation to Development Democrat, but pro-development officials were visibly lobbying her.

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