New York Times Votes for EDE FOX for City Council

     Friday, August 30, 2013, the New York Times ran the editorial "WHEN MONEY SHOUTS" on the subject of outside money contaminating races in this year's New York primaries:
     "The place where outside electioneering is a bigger problem [than in the mayoral competition] is the City Council races, where smaller-bore contests among lesser-known candidates have been swamped by the spending of one group with the vaguely positive, positively vague name JOBS FOR NEW YORK.
     JOBS FOR NEW YORK was set up by the Real Estate Board of New York -- REBNY --, which includes the city's biggest developers.  It has...pledged to spend $10,000,000, all in the service of building a more business-friendly City Council.  Developers are openly anxious about life after Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who for the last dozen years has been the best friend a builder could have.  No one knows who the new mayor will be, which is why the real estate industry is eager to exert its influence on the revamped City Council, whose members have considerable control over whether projects in their district live or die.
     JOBS FOR NEW YORK has placed its thumb heavily on the scale in some districts.  It has matched, doubled, even quadrupled the amounts the candidates themselves have raised and spent."
     On Saturday, the Times followed with an editorial casting their vote for Ede Fox to best represent District 35, citing "her knowledge of the Council and her command of complicated issues involving development and education."
     What the Times left out is that District 35 is most coveted by REBNY.  To capture the seat in the 35th, it has bankrolled the campaign of Laurie Cumbo to the tune of $400,000 through JOBS FOR NEW YORK.  
     JOBS FOR NEW YORK canvassers for Cumbo are now swarming Ft. Greene, Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill,  ground zero for luxury high-rise builders.
     Candidate Cumbo expressed "excitement" over the big developers' lavish attentions and the prospect of working with them in the Council -- until the backlash in the District hit.  Now she cries she's being scapegoated by the hundreds of thousands of dollars coming her way, now claiming she has "no control" over what REBNY does with its millions.
      What do you think?  Why do you think the New York Times endorsed Ede Fox and not Laurie Cumbo?