Tony Avella, the Anti-Overdevelopment Candidate
City Councilman Tony Avella has been making himself known around Brooklyn lately, showing up at a community meeting about Gowanus and supporting other politicians who’ve called for a moratorium on Atlantic Yards demolitions. The common thread is also Avella’s main talking point in his (longshot) bid to become our next mayor: Namely, that the Bloomberg…
City Councilman Tony Avella has been making himself known around Brooklyn lately, showing up at a community meeting about Gowanus and supporting other politicians who’ve called for a moratorium on Atlantic Yards demolitions. The common thread is also Avella’s main talking point in his (longshot) bid to become our next mayor: Namely, that the Bloomberg administration has sold out to real estate interests, disrupting the fabric of neighborhoods and turning a deaf ear to community concerns. Voice blog Runnin’ Scared has an interview with the man who wants to replace Mike. Here are some choice quotes:
“You have so many communities throughout the entire City that need to be protected from overdevelopment. You have the Department of Buildings, which is in a shambles. And it has been such a huge effort to get even the smallest rezoning, even the smallest change done within the City Council. It’s bizarre.”
“Listen, a lot of my fellow councilmen seem to be more interested, along with the Speaker, in getting money from the real estate industry than stepping up and doing the right thing. I don’t need to tell you, there’s very little independence in the City Council. It’s amazing to me how nobody speaks up.”
“In my opinion the one campaign that you can draw from is the Obama campaign. In terms of somebody coming from nowhere. Really, he had no name recognition beyond his own state, to in effect get the Democratic nomination at this point. People want change, and I think that’s what my campaign is all about.”
Underdog Mayoral Hopeful on Quinn, Bloomberg and Obama [Runnin’ Scared]
Legislation To Boost Community-Based Planning [Brownstoner]
Photo by No Land Grab.
As soon as I saw the headline of this thread, I knew that it was posted by Gabby. She bends over backwards to take a swipe at large developments, especially AY. So much bias on this site.
Mr. Avella doesn’t stand a chance. 99.9% of candidate favored by AY opponents (check out the mural on Carlton for PHAC’s endorsement of Avella) have flopped. Bill Batson and Chris Owens tried to make overdevelopment/AY their main campaign point and look at all of the good it did them.
i’d vote for marion barry before this guy.
tony avella sucks. he should go shovel pig crap on a farm somewhere and stop bitching about development. He is a complete failure in life and politics.the best word to summarize his mayoral aspirations is: eeewwww
Forget this asshat…do you all know who Rey Clarke from Brooklyn is???
He’s one of the guys that scaled the Times building yesterday.
Tony Avella should stay in Queens where he belongs. This guy is a real flake. He doesnt even know what he’s protecting. Maybe we should just bulldoze everything and farm the land, thats what morons like him call progress.
tony avella is easily the most reviled scum in city council. you can look for weeks and you won’t find a single person who will call him a friend. this little f*cker is dreaming if he thinks he can be mayor. not even his mother will vote for him.
tony avella is the biggest weasel in the history of humanity. He is not even qualified to run a deli let alone a city. His long standing nickname around queens is Tony “deep fryer” Avella since that is all he is qualified to run.
11:06 – it isnt that people are against a women – they are just against THAT women.
Although the same arguments are forming around Obama – I notice that his supporters-as-pundits on the news channels are all begining to try to connect all opposition to Obama to racism.
I also love that these same commentators are lamenting that “many Americans will not vote for a black man” – which the current stats put around 1 in 10 – which of course means the NINETY percent of people wouldnt base their vote on race – which is a pretty amazing statistic.
and what does that make Sheldon Silver????