A public authority’s independent money lets one man dictate city policy

Evidence

The city had a problem that desperately needed solution. It had no money to solve the problem itself. Moses had the money. And if the city wanted a solution, it would have to accept his solution—or none at all. That was the narrow limit of its choices—which was really no choice at all. The ultimatum that Moses had delivered first to the Mayor and then to the City Council symbolized this reality—and so did the reaction of the Mayor and the City Council to that ultimatum. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2843

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• XREF: connects to: Moses simultaneously headed seven separate park and road agencies — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1605