Long Island Newsday (REGIONAL)
Mall developer gets White House endorsement, gives Gore donation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign
received thousands of dollars in donations from a developer days
after the White House endorsed that company's plans to build a
shopping mall on environmentally sensitive wetlands in New
Jersey, according to a published report.
Mills Corp. wanted to build an upscale shopping complex in
Carlstadt, N.J., but environmentalists opposed it for years
because the construction would mean filling more than 90 acres of
marshland, where rare wildlife can be found.
Because the 8,000 or so acres of the New Jersey Meadowlands, once
the site of unfettered development and garbage dumps, are
primarily wetlands, federal agencies must approve any new
development there. And although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service originally opposed Mills' project, it gave its support
after intervention from the White House.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency and other state and
federal offices gave preliminary endorsement to the project April
22. About a week after the endorsement, Mills executives and
their relatives gave at least $31,000 to Gore's campaign, The
Philadelphia Inquirer reported in Saturday's editions.
Mills executives and Gore have denied any connection.
But Jeff Tittle, director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra
Club, isn't convinced.
''This is a good example of special-interest money trying to
influence public policy,'' Tittle said. ''New Jersey needs more
malls like Washington needs more bureaucrats.''
Another environmental group, Friends of the Earth Political
Action Committee, earlier this year reported that executives,
contractors and family members of the Mills Corp. had given Gore
$43,000 for his campaign. The environmental group reported those
numbers after the Clinton-Gore administration expressed support
for a mall by the same company on 500 acres of wetlands in the
Meadowlands. It's not clear if that report is related to The
Inquirer's report on the site in Carlstadt.
Gore's spokesman, Jim Kennedy, denied that the donations reported
in The Inquirer influenced policy.
Kennedy said the White House Council on Environmental Quality,
which is closely affiliated with Gore, tried to resolve the
dispute by working to strike a balance between private property
and open space rights. He said the deal cut the size of the
original proposal in half.
''There is certainly no connection between anyone's contributions
and the administration's work on the management plan,'' Kennedy
said. ''The White House became involved at the request of
environmentalists and helped fashion a solution which benefits
the environment and in fact bars the Mills Corp. from building
the mall it had planned.''
James Dausch, vice president for development at Mills, said the
company worked for five years to get the necessary approvals.
Dausch also said there was no connection between the decisions
and the contributions.
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