Full Throttle

Some headline huh? It outta get a few strange hits from the search engine bots.

As you know I wouldn’t lie, too much, But that’s what this story is about. NASCAR’s attempts to move into Staten Island, that frankly I never realized was a stepchild, hairless or otherwise but that’s what the story claims New York City’s forgotten borough is called by some.

Most of the article is boilerplate stuff. Most are opposed, some on the fence, but it does mention one convert:

Approval would be just fine with Vincent Pompa, a lifelong Staten Islander and a member of a local community board.

The 78-year-old retired chemist was opposed to the track before International Speedway took him to a race in Richmond, Virginia. Pompa says he was surprised that 100,000 race-day fans were gone in two hours and that noise from the track could barely be heard half a mile away.

Now Pompa says a racetrack on Staten Island would be “the lesser of three evils,” better than adding manufacturing or housing.

“People don’t like change, but the island has already changed,” he says.

Nothing like a paid political junket to influence the hearts and minds I always say. Especially and up close and personal look that Richmond would provide.

In the end the article doesn’t provide much in the way of news, but it damn sure gave me a good headline didn’t it?