April 22, 2005
Silver: No Jets vote till July
New York state assembly leader Sheldon Silver joined his state senate colleague Joe Bruno yesterday in insisting that a Jets stadium vote is "highly unlikely" before the International Olympic Committee makes its 2012 host selection in July. (Silver has said this before, of course, but every time he does it makes fresh headlines.)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg retorted that "the option of waiting until after the Olympics is not a realistic option. I don't know whether we drop out or just say to them, 'Thank you very much for your consideration,' but I don't know why we'd want to embarrass the country and ourselves." Bloomberg may not have much of a choice: The Daily News reports (answering my question from yesterday) that Silver and Bruno can each table a stadium vote once, which should be enough to delay it until after the IOC makes its pick on July 6.
