Democracy Discarded at Coney Island

We'd heard the Town Hall meeting at Coney Island last night had been canceled because too many people showed up. Now there's a new wrinkle in the story, as reported in the Brooklyn Paper tonight: "A state senator who opposes Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island redevelopment plan claimed victory at the first public hearing on the proposal Monday night, boasting that he was able to shut down the meeting by busing in hundreds of people to the event."