Kings Country Politics – News Needs to Be Correct
If you post about politics in Bay Ridge and your writing is not accurate, I will ask you to update it. If you want people in Brooklyn to respect your writing, then you will probably correct it.
Last week The NY Post revealed that Assemblywoman Pam Harris maintains a strange connection to the not-for-profit, The Coney Island Generation Gap. King Country Politics posted an op-ed about Pam Harris where KCP defended Harris. No one is questioning Harris’ work with the not-for-profit. We wouldn’t have voted for her if that was the question. We don’t need a smoke screen by Harris complaining that the kids are questioning why their group is mentioned in the news. (Politicians should have explained that they messed up). The question now is: Why haven’t cancelled checks been shown yet? This is easy to prove and someone who has been around as long as KCP should have mentioned that already.
In September 2015, Kings County Politics wrote that Harris opened an office in Bay Ridge. It’s obvious that Kings Country Politics didn’t do their homework and just printed a press release from Harris. In April, we went to office when we needed help and the store front was still an old store for Middle Eastern clothing. When I discovered there was no office, I posted pictures online (zoom in and you will see the pics on the door still). I contacted Kings Country Politics both privately and then publicly. On May 16th, Harris was in the papers (see here) for opening an office in Bay Ridge. Kings County Politics has yet to retract the mistake and yesterday KCP tweeted this to me:
The mistake still remains even though KCP wrote this:
Stephen Witt blocked me and then asked my name. Stephen, learn about social media….once you block someone they can’t see what you wrote unless they log out and look at your feed. I didn’t have the time to do that until I woke at 3:00 am this morning.
Hate? This guy must get a lot of hate mail as why would someone asking him to report things honestly make him think they hate him.
Witt should be looking at the paperwork for Harris’ office. If the Bay Ridge office was open, why would Harris have no staff working in the Bay Ridge office? This is May 18th’s payroll list:
Ironically, King County Politics posted the wrong twitter account for Pam Harris. KCP doesn’t know Pam Harris hasn’t used that Twitter account since March. In July, Harris’ staff started tweeting under this account. I guess KCP doesn’t expect much from Harris so they didn’t notice there was no tweets for several months.
Disclaimer: Steven Witt isn’t a fan of mine. I have been writing online under the name Queen of the Click for more than 10 years. While Steven Witt was a big fan of Bruce Ratner’s, I was not. My family’s property was threatened by eminent domain and we strongly supported the home owners whose homes were threatened in the Atlantic Yards. I always commented on Witt’s articles because he left people in Downtown hopeless. In 2013, the Daily News reported that Bruce Ratner’s sister published Steven Witt’s book. This didn’t surprise us at all as in 2006, a paper reported that Witt hugged Ratner.
Hugs,
marlene
Topics: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Politics | 2 Comments »
July 18th, 2016 at 10:17 am
I will not update a correction on Pam Harris office because I was physically at the opening. Now perhaps the photo you took is after the office closed, which may be the case as it was the campaign office. This week I will physically go to her new office and see if its there. As for the office hours, I have neither the time or resources to stake it out to see if they open and close on time.
Regarding Atlantic Yards, was your family one of the real estate investors that bought property in the footprint just before Ratner bought the property like others did and then cashed out for millions of dollars. What about the 2,250 units of affordable housing – by far the most affordable housing being built in Downtown Brooklyn? Also, I suppose you haven’t been one of the millions who have gone to a sporting event or concert at Barclays Center.
July 18th, 2016 at 10:56 am
You said you were at the opening in September 2015?
My photos were taken on the last day of April.
Ask Pam, Stephen. Let her be honest with you because you printed that in September 2015 from what I believe is a press release.
See the addresses on the payroll. How do you explain that?
Press releases have made politicians around Bay Ridge sound like superstars when really most aren’t doing a lot. (See here).
My family was there long before Ratner or anyone else cared about the area. They never intended to sell the building and the city exploiting the area was wrong.
I know what happened Downtown, but you know SOOO much more and could have/should have written a book on the truth of that whole situation. Who would care about a book that discussed “The Taking of Downtown Brooklyn?” Brooklyn historians and a lot of people throughout the United States who are now fighting against eminent domain in the United States.
I have never been to an event at Barclay Center. It looks like a nice building, but it’s just not for us. I love concerts, but won’t even see Billy Joel there. Maybe one day when my mind forgets about it all, I’ll go there.
Oh and the the affordable housing part of the deal wasn’t as promised, but I don’t think anyone thought that was real. Did you honestly think that a Republican Mayor would care about affordable housing? C’mon.
http://gothamist.com/2016/04/28/barclays_center_l_i_v_i_n.php
http://www.wnyc.org/story/mayor-de-blasio-breaks-ground-brooklyn-affordable-housing-project
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/de-blasio-hails-affordable-complex-3-500-apartments-article-1.2046637