So the stadium opposition puppets being controled by Alphonse D'Amato are upset because union workers refuse to hang their banner.

We, of course did not run into that problem when we hung our banner on 11th Avenue over a year ago.

NYABC has been following us around for the past year, imitating everything we do. Sincerest form of flattery. We design a cool t-shirt, they design a shirt, too- though not as cool as ours, of course. We start a web site, WestSideStadium.org, they start a web site, nowestsidestadium.org. We put up a banner, they put up a banner.

The difference is, we do ours on a shoestring, they do theirs on $30 million of tax payer money, siphoned from the real-estate tax roles by Mendacity Square Garden to promote their campaign of lies.

Then NYABC has the audacity to complain about "free speech," when their puppet masters, Jimmie Dolan and Co., refuse to air spots supporting the stadium and the Olympic movement.

UNION SACKS ANTI-STADIUM SIGN
By BRIAN HAMACHER

June 5, 2005 -- The Madison Square Garden-led campaign to halt construction of the West Side stadium project hit a snag when union workers refused to hang a sign opposing the controversial plan, The Post has learned.

The $35,000, 65-by- 65-foot billboard was supposed go up Friday at the corner of West 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue — a block away from where the Jets want to break ground.

But it sat yesterday rolled up in a Queens warehouse.

The sign was paid for by the New York Association for Better Choices, a group of residents, community groups and businesses — including MSG — that opposes the plan. The black-and-white banner reading "Say No to the Stadium" was supposed to hang for a month.

Ari Noe, president of OTR Media, which owns the billboard space, told The Post he hired North Shore Neon Sign Company of Maspeth to hang the sign. But company officials told him Friday that the sign wouldn't go up because their union workers refused to hang it.

Noe said he then contacted officials at Sheet Metal Workers International Association 137 to complain and that they told him, "Whoever hangs this sign loses their job. No one can hang this banner."

Dante Dano Jr., a union officer with Long Island City-based Local 137, said he was unaware of the conflict.

When asked about the workers' decision to snub the anti-stadium group, Dano said, "We want any new construction; it's good for all working men and women. If they didn't hang it, that's a personal choice."

Officials from North Shore Neon Sign Company did not return phone messages seeking comment.

Whit Clay, a spokesman for the New York Association for Better Choices, said they expect the billboard to eventually go up as planned.

"This will not quiet the voices of the police, fire, theater and service employee unions who have joined with the majority of New Yorkers in opposing spending more than $1 billion in tax dollars on a football stadium," the group said in a prepared statement.

Noe said he contacted at least four other companies — all staffed by union workers — but none would take the job.

"Am I an American? This is freedom of speech. It's outrageous," Noe said.