I'm curious what becomes the central issues of this campaign, because ""crime"" led the mayoral primary race but judging by the late poll swings, I'd say the main issue of the primary was "Is this happening?".
If Tish James supports abolishing the Executive Order barring NYS from doing business with any company that observes the boycott of Israel, lots of lefties will flock to her.
With all due respect to a complicated story/person, the paragraph on Atlantic Yards doesn't do the issue justice. Atlantic Yards, a 15- or 16-tower-plus-arena development project announced in 2003 ≠ Barclays Center, which was named in 2007, and opened in 2012. Atlantic Yards has since renamed Pacific Park, and is less than half finished.
I wouldn't say it "consumed the lionshare of her work"--CMs have a lot to do, as this article suggests--but it surely was James's most prominent stance.
James didn't merely vow to fight eminent domain but more broadly fought for accountability, which is why she presided at the press conference announcing a separate challenge to the project's environmental review, and was a named petitioner in a case challenge the MTA's renegotiation of the deal regarding Vanderbilt Yard development rights.
She was not a party to the eminent domain cases and, while she was a prominent supporter of the petitioners, it would be unwise to call it a "dead-end" for her efforts. Regarding "the case was rejected at both the trial and appellate court levels, while the Supreme Court refused to even hear it, a dead-end for James’ efforts."
It's a little more complex than that. The federal eminent domain case was, yes, rejected at the trial and appellate court levels; the U.S. Supreme Court takes a bare fraction of cases appealed.
The subsequent NY State eminent domain case started in the appellate division--because NYS eminent domain law vastly favors condemnors--but did make it to an appeal to NYS' highest court, the Court of Appeals, which, while rejecting the case, did ventilate some significant criticisms.
I'm curious what becomes the central issues of this campaign, because ""crime"" led the mayoral primary race but judging by the late poll swings, I'd say the main issue of the primary was "Is this happening?".
The "left" does need to continue the campaign of increasing taxes on the rich, explicitly because the impact of the incredibly modest tax increases in the last state budget is already seeing positive dividends (https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/ny-state-of-politics/2021/10/18/new-york-tax-collections-surge-above-projects). Hochul appears wishy-washy on the matter and the next budget will let us know where she stands but James should pick up a couple bills from the Invest in Our New York Act.
If Tish James supports abolishing the Executive Order barring NYS from doing business with any company that observes the boycott of Israel, lots of lefties will flock to her.
With all due respect to a complicated story/person, the paragraph on Atlantic Yards doesn't do the issue justice. Atlantic Yards, a 15- or 16-tower-plus-arena development project announced in 2003 ≠ Barclays Center, which was named in 2007, and opened in 2012. Atlantic Yards has since renamed Pacific Park, and is less than half finished.
I wouldn't say it "consumed the lionshare of her work"--CMs have a lot to do, as this article suggests--but it surely was James's most prominent stance.
James didn't merely vow to fight eminent domain but more broadly fought for accountability, which is why she presided at the press conference announcing a separate challenge to the project's environmental review, and was a named petitioner in a case challenge the MTA's renegotiation of the deal regarding Vanderbilt Yard development rights.
She was not a party to the eminent domain cases and, while she was a prominent supporter of the petitioners, it would be unwise to call it a "dead-end" for her efforts. Regarding "the case was rejected at both the trial and appellate court levels, while the Supreme Court refused to even hear it, a dead-end for James’ efforts."
It's a little more complex than that. The federal eminent domain case was, yes, rejected at the trial and appellate court levels; the U.S. Supreme Court takes a bare fraction of cases appealed.
The subsequent NY State eminent domain case started in the appellate division--because NYS eminent domain law vastly favors condemnors--but did make it to an appeal to NYS' highest court, the Court of Appeals, which, while rejecting the case, did ventilate some significant criticisms.
It's worth watching what she says about Atlantic Yards in her campaign because, yes, while her position seemed to soften, as I wrote in 2016, seemed to soften, by the time she was campaigning for AG she actually overstated her role in AY, as I wrote in 2018: https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/7884-running-for-attorney-general-james-takes-strong-atlantic-yards-record-too-far
Norman Oder
Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report