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Arroyo more conciliatory on Whole Foods than Chang-Diaz
By adamg on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:05pm
At-large City Councilor Felix Arroyo also sent a letter to the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council last week about Whole Foods. He makes many of the same points as State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz about the need for local hiring and gentrification. Unlike Chang-Diaz, however, he doesn't tell Whole Foods to pay up or move out; his letter is instead full of "coulds."
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Same thing as Diaz, just
Same thing as Diaz, just sugar-coated. Clearly, Arroyo is the more savvy politician here.
Regardless, this is just political posturing. They are both positioning themselves to take credit for the things WF would have done in JP anyway, only now they can take credit for it themselves.
Unbelievable
Need I say more? Nope, we wouldn't want to see appreciation on home values in a down economy. Next thing you know parents will take part in their child's education, there will be parks and business districts, and maybe, just maybe, the streets will be clean! That would be terrible.
What a complete and utter dope.
Newsflash Sonia: Whole Foods has been recognized as one of the best companies to work for. They provide exceptional medical, dental, vision, etc, to "team members" after a very short employment history: all at a *very* low premium. I thought securing affordable health care was one of your talking points. Has that changed or do you simply prefer socialized health care?
Not only is this common knowledge, but here is a first-hand account. My sister in-law is a single mother of a 3 year old adorable daughter. She works at Whole Foods and while she doesn't particularly like the corporate red tape that any company that size must employ, she does realize how great they have treated her. Less than a year into her career there, she has earned a generous wage, been promoted and has been able to afford health care for both herself and her daughter. (Incidentally, she was hired as a "team member" - not a manager - just like everyone else)
Apart from that, she lives less than 2 miles from that particular Whole Foods and can afford to rent a 800 square foot apartment for the two of them. No significant increase in the cost of living for her.
I think you should recheck your "data" and quit playing politician.
Who would have thought?
Who would have thought that Arroyo would play this better than Chang-Diaz? Not me. He must have been reading the comments here and on Patch.
It still amounts to a shakedown in behalf of JP Neighborhood Development Corporation, the leadership of which is prominent in the Whose Foods? opponents.
Who are they?
Deselby, do you know the names of the NDC people who are involved in Whose Foods? I would love to know, especially since they keep saying no, it's not them, it's just "the people", expressing their righteous anger at.. blah, blah, blah.
Ad Hoc Committee
This is the JPNC group looking at alternatives to Whole Foods for the old Hi-Lo site.
This is the roll call for the vote
This is the roll call for the vote:
http://www.jpnc.org/2011/03/roll-call-on-whole-foods-vote/
One can see that the Council moved ahead with what's essentially a 51-49 type majority - hardly a concensus.
NDC people
I agree. Who are the NDC staff involved in this?
Chang-Diaz is wrong
Her reference to market values rising are NOT the effect of Whole Foods moving into the neighborhood. They're rising because Whole Foods looks for markets already on the rise. Please spend more than 5 minutes looking for facts to support a biased opinion, Sonia. I voted for you but disagree with you entirely here. You appear to be shaking down a business to benefit other businesses.
- ct