As an aside John Sutter, Owner/Publisher of the Villager newspaper is being honored 5/23/10. I can forward thetime and location I you are interested.
Do I think John Sutter is corrupt? Yes, in my opinion I believe he and his paper The Villager with NYU aided and abetted Christine Quinn in stealing away a third term that involved turning the press including NY1 away and seniors including a senior in a wheel chair. A group of us fought long and hard and finally the long term community activist in the wheel chair who made an Olympic effort to get there was finally let in after I told them I was posting what I filmed live on YouTube. A dynamic activist took his wheel chair and pushed in up the ramp where he had been turned away over and over.
It is a boy's club and yes they have a few honorary female members that obey the rules but it is not a village paper but a corrupt rag that caters to NYU and many believe in league with NYU and other real estate developers. The Villager endorsed Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn.
Does the paper do some feel good reporting? Yes. Just don't make waves and obey or they start removing articles from their websites as happened to me on both The Villager website and The Chelsea News website. Another reason in my opinon John Sutter and his associates are corrupt!
Many believe John air space Sutter is some involved with the air sale to Donald Trump although Sutter a mysterious wealthy man who gives his many papers away free denies this. This paper is in the base of the building that sold the air rights as I understand it and that alone hints on some kind of alliance and benefits for Sutter.
Many have written off Sutter and I was harassed so much by Lincoln Anderson the associate editor that sent me so many emails after I told him to stop contacting me and that was not the first time I have an aggravated harassment complaint filed against Lincoln Anderson.
Gee whiz -- how did this article on City Council task force meeting on DOB vanish before the election in John Sutter's newspaper Chelsea Now? http://www.chelseanow.com/cn_12/builtupcomplaintssome.html
There was a photo of me by Jefferson Siegel and it was made to disappear as well.
How many construction workers had died when I spoke up at the meeting?
Too many.
Many people wore stickers protesting Donald Trump and Spring and Varrick and Sutter's people for some reason made this article go away and in the paper that is in Christine Quinn's district.
I have plenty of other reasons I think John Sutter is a corrupt but here are just a few.
I would give you the link to The Villager which as photos minus mine but for some reason the article has been removed from their website as well. It doesn't make Christine Quinn look very good that she could not or did not attend but hopefully people don't care or remember and the articles from John Sutter's papers are no longer on Sutter's websites.
One reason people think Christine Quinn did not want to show up and chair this city council task force meeting on DOB is because she did not oppose the Trump build at Spring and Varrick and the meeting was filled to the brim with protestors of Donald Trump.
More people died after that meeting including one construction worker at the Donald Trump site at Spring and Varrick.
It is interesting what John Sutter's papers make disappear as if they are going out of their way to not report the news....hmmmmmm
