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Gov to meet on mosque ‘move’
Loading ...Gov. Paterson will meet personally with the developers of the Ground Zero mosque this week in a bid to find them a new location, even as one of the project’s backers insisted yesterday that the current site is “nowhere near the World Trade Center.”
“The governor told me there’s a meeting,” said Rep. Peter King, (R-LI), who spoke with Paterson yesterday morning. “He told me that the builders and the leaders from the mosque” will be there.
A spokesman for Paterson confirmed efforts to set up a powwow, but would not discuss the purpose. But King said it would be to discuss getting the state’s help to find a new location for their proposed mosque and community center.
“He was hopeful [about] the fact that he was having the meeting and he was going to sit down with them, drawing them out to see if they want to do it or not,” said King, who has opposed a mosque so close to Ground Zero.
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