NASCAR: A Vow of Silence Among Mafiosi?
Lets get the obligatory “Hotlanta” is “Wetlanta” and all NASCAR activity was suspended Friday” out of the way now. The Cherokee Nation, some of which are native to Georgia, had a successful rain dance apparently.
So lets move on, there’s no need to belabor the point. If you don’t know how they will line-up Sunday you’re in the wrong place.
It’s been well established the local “burrow” politicians - “burrow” as in a rats home, not Borough as in a geographic location within NYC - of Staten Island vehemently oppose the purposed NASCAR track within their imagined island paradise.
It could be paved in gold and the toilets designed to overflow with diamonds and they still would be opposed.
They haven’t been alone. By any measure the local press hasn’t exactly rushed to the defense of NASCAR or the ISC either. Leading the charge has been the Staten Island Advance (SIA) and Friday’s edition is another in a long line of examples. To hear SIA tell it NASCAR and the ISC have taken the Sicilian pledge of omert
I’d expect nothing less from the left-wing media. Bad news makes good reporting, and good news doesn’t. NASCAR should just look at this as they don’t need NYC either. Move the banquet to ‘vegas or Atlanta or any place else, and cut all ties to NYC. Why did they pick NYC for the banquet in the first place?
When this project was first announced I was generally in favor of it. Marketing wise it made sense.
Since that time and after reading some of the garbage the “antis” have had to say I’ve turned against the idea.
And like you I’ve called on them to pull the Championship banquet out of the city as well.
Welcome to the Rotten Apple boys. The bigger the squawking noise, the bigger the payoff Mother NASCAR will have to make, to get the approval over the local “opposition”.
It’s the oldest game in town and honed to perfection by the politcos. Mr. Tammany would be very proud!
Silly question, is there an alternative venue where you could build a oval to service the New York market. My New York/New Jersey/New York State geography is not the best.
I believe George has mentioned a spot in New Jersey but I may be wrong.
In reality to hell with them. Most of the NASCAR fans that live in the State are in the far western or Northern part and they all flock to Watkins Glen.
And considering ISC owns the Glen they should just expand it and ring it with an oval and then send NYC a pox on their “house.”