Comments on: John Catsimatidis… I was just joking about affordable housing! http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/john-catsimatidis-i-was-just-joking-about-affordable-housing/ Fort Greene & Clinton Hill BK All Day Every Day Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Owen Ryan http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/john-catsimatidis-i-was-just-joking-about-affordable-housing/#comment-409 Owen Ryan Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:46:56 +0000 http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-409 Hey, let's be fair about things and not make useless comments about what someone looks like physically (Unless you're willing to show your own not-ready-for-prime time mug off to the world. Look, I'm a tall skinny guy, would you say that this makes me better able to "empathize with local residents". From what I see when you walk in to one of his supermarkets, is that the employees -- and the managers and assistants he promotes from the floor -- come from a rainbow of ethnic and minority groups. (At WHOLE FOODS all you see is white guys.) For my vote, anyone who climbs up to the top of the business world as (except for guys on Wall Street) gets there by really hard work and treating people well. That's the kind of person NYC needs now. Hey, let’s be fair about things and not make useless comments about what someone looks like physically (Unless you’re willing to show your own not-ready-for-prime time mug off to the world. Look, I’m a tall skinny guy, would you say that this makes me better able to “empathize with local residents”.

From what I see when you walk in to one of his supermarkets, is that the employees — and the managers and assistants he promotes from the floor — come from a rainbow of ethnic and minority groups. (At WHOLE FOODS all you see is white guys.)

For my vote, anyone who climbs up to the top of the business world as (except for guys on Wall Street) gets there by really hard work and treating people well. That’s the kind of person NYC needs now.

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