With all due respect, Andrew, you’re just wrong about Bloomberg’s supposed responsibility for the failures at Ground Zero. The mayor of New York has no statutory or legal role in the rebuilding of Ground Zero. None. The land is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which effectively cuts the city out of the matter and places it solely in the hands of Gov. Pataki (and the governor of New Jersey, whoever he is this week). Bloomberg could have stood there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it wouldn’t have mattered a whit. You may hate the stadium, Andrew — and you’re wrong about that too, for reasons I enumerate here — but Bloomberg’s advocacy of it played no role in the disasters at Ground Zero. I’m sorry Bloomberg took away your smoking sections, Andrew, but he’s not to blame for everything as a result of it.
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