June 16, 2004
Doctoroff: We don't need no stinkin' elected officials
This just in from the Around The Rings newsletter on the Olympics, as relayed by Brian Hatch's newyorkgames.org:
[New York deputy mayor Dan] Doctoroff told Around the Rings it wasn't the first time he's been greeted this way. He was neither fussed by the outbursts nor persuaded to change to consider a change in [Jets stadium] plans to mollify public opinion.
"I have a high degree of confidence that we are going to be successful," he says. "It does not require a vote of the city council or the state legislature."
This is apparently Doctoroff's first outright statement that he plans to secure $600 million in city and state money without asking elected bodies for approval - as we noted last week, this will be easier said than done. It's also a contradiction of what Doctoroff testified before the city council earlier this month, when he said "what we are saying is that it will cost roughly $20 million a year over time, but whether in fact that will go through the budget or not is something that we'll determine over the next several months."
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