Assembly Puppets So Used to Kissing Silver's Ass Could Not Even Oppose A Weak Political Machine
Weak Pols Fear of Pissing Off the Leader
Lawmakers are failing to vet their party bosses' anointed candidate for speaker. The raw power of New York City ’s Democratic bosses has set Assemblyman — and, yes, Bronx party leader — Carl Heastie on track for coronation as Assembly speaker. Never mind that Heastie is an expense-account hog, has been a no-show at roll calls, has pulled down $14,000 in bonus pay for no work, has a paper-thin legislative record, cuts corners on campaign finance disclosure and plays fast and loose with campaign funds. These are frivolities to his fellow bosses: Frank Seddio of Brooklyn, Rep. Joe Crowley of Queens and Assemblyman Keith Wright of Manhattan . But they should be matters of pressing interest to the Assembly members the bosses have cowed into backing Heastie without the slightest scrutiny. When the Dems began to come to their senses after Sheldon Silver’s arrest, they gushed with promises of openness and reform. They agreed that Silver would leave Monday and that members would vote on a successor on Feb. 10. The delay was designed to give contenders the chance to make their cases and for members to review the backgrounds of candidates. But then the bosses intervened with visions of owning the Assembly through Heastie. Quickly, the members fell in line. On Thursday, while visiting the Daily News Editorial Board, Majority Leader Joe Morelle called for a full and open process and said he was in the fight to the end. Less than 24 hours later, the hayseed from Rochester caved to the city’s tough guys. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Carl Heastie, Albany ’s new standard-bearer of ethics, a man who is also surrounded by an small army of fixers. Whoa.Assembly Democrats are being too hasty about Carl Heastie (NYDN Ed) * Speaker selection process happens behind closed doors (LoHud)
The Real Corruption In NY the Lobbyists and Party Machines That Elect Pols
The NYT Spends No Times Looking At the Machines That Include Lobbyist Like Stanley Schlein That Allow Pols to Get Elected
In theory, the Democrats who control the Assembly should be able to pick a successor who is committed to good governance and ethics reform, but already the signs of back-room dealing and meddling from party hacks are not encouraging. “Maybe it’s time for us to do something about the election law that allows such a liberal view of what we’re able to spend money on,” Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat, told an Albany radio interviewer on Friday, a day after he withdrew from the speaker’s race.* U.S.Attorney: New YorkPolitics a ‘Cauldron of Corruption’ - WSJ
Assembly Swamp Replaces Corrupt Silver With Corrupt Party Bosses
Party bosses circlethe Assembly like vultures over carrion (NYDN) Installing Carl Heastie as speaker would crown New York City Democratic leaders as kings of Albany. New York City ’s Democratic bosses are about to steal their biggest prize in decades: control of the state Assembly. And you thought corruption ran rampant under Sheldon Silver. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. If Frank Seddio of the Brooklyn machine, Joe Crowley of the Queens machine, Keith Wright of Manhattan’s barely-a-machine and Carl Heastie of the Bronx machine succeed in installing Heastie as speaker without so much as a public look-see. The four overlords are driving Democratic Assembly members from each of their boroughs into voting for Heastie, never mind that, in deposing Silver, everyone in Albany swore that the Corruption Caucus was dead. * Bronx Assemblyman Carl Heastie appears close to securing the 76 votes needed to win the Assembly speakership, with support from the Queens delegation and a bloc of 10 suburban members Speakers Race Updates The New York Times reports * Suburban Lawmakers Back Heastie(YNN) * Morelle Withdraws From Race For Speaker(YNN) Heastie asks joe morelle to stay on as majority leader * Assembly StronglyConsidering Making Speaker Vote One Week Earlier: Sources(NYO)* Lentol LamentsAssembly ‘Culture’ That Made Him Drop Speaker Bid (NYO) NY Assem Dem still on fence: calls coming yesterday from women's groups pushing Nolan -incl Eleanor's Legacy - have stopped today.* Speaker Vote Likely Next Week(YNN)* Under Heastie, Committee Chairs May Stay Put For Now(YNN) * Heastie Picks Up Five More Votes For Speaker(YNN)* Sheldon Silver has submitted a letter resigning his post as Assembly speaker effective 11:59 p.m. Monday, his spokesman says.* As Heastie appears poised to take over the Assembly’s top post, Democratic lawmakers and their aides expect a vote for speaker could come as soon as Tuesday, Gannett Albany reports: *Assemblyman Joseph Lentol blasted the “culture” of the Assembly and the influence of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the borough Democratic bosses that he says forced him to abandon his bid for speaker, the Observer reports: * Assemblyman Carl Heastie, who now has the support of almost all of the New York City delegation in his bid for Assembly speaker, would be the first black lawmaker in New York ’s history to assume the chamber’s top leadership role, Bloomberg reports:
Putting the County Bosses In Charge of the Assembly . . . Will Make Assembly Function Like the Board Of Elections Which They Always Controlled
Silver Golden Age of Good Government?
If Frank Seddio of the Brooklyn machine, Joe Crowley of the Queens machine, Keith Wright of Manhattan’s barely-a-machine and Carl Heastie of the Bronx machine succeed in installing Heastie as speaker without so much as a public look-see, New Yorkers may one day look back on Silver’s reign as a golden age of good government.* The DN calls Heastie a “man with blemishes,” noting his name appeared in the files of the Moreland Commission for having failed to properly account for $25,000 in campaign spending. He also claimed almost $21,000 from the Assembly’s notoriously lax travel expense account during just the first six months of 2014 — more than any other member.* Carl Heastie aide"Howard Vargas has built a lucrative side business in court-appointed realestate receiverships". (NYDN)
The deal to make Heastie the new speaker is “about done,” according to a source involved in the negotiations. * The fact that Heastie is on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful men in New York politics is “an astonishing feat for a guy most New Yorkers never heard of,” Juan Gonzalez says. Heastie isn’t ready to claim victory as he wants to “personally ask” each of his colleagues for his or her vote. * So far, Assemblymen Keith Wright and Joe Lentol have quit the speaker’s race and announced their support for Heastie. Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan remain contenders, though Nolan didn’t get the support of most of her own Queens delegation. About Nolan: “there are few in public life who can, like her, reel off complete, properly punctuated sentences with dependent clauses at 60 miles per hour.”
Sheldon Silver stepping down to fight charges (NYP)Sheldon Silver agreed on Sunday to step down temporarily as Speaker of the Assembly as he fights federal corruption charges, according to sources. “Shelly will withdraw as speaker,” one source said. A coalition of up to five assembly Democratic will take over his duties. Two of them — Herman “Denny” Farrell of Harlem and Joseph Morelle of Rochester — will handle the budget negotiation with the governor and state senate.Sheldon * The quintet of leaders includes Farrell, Morelle, Heastie, Nolan and Lentol. RACE TO REPLACE: Democrats jockeying behind the scenes to replace Speaker Sheldon Silver in New York Assembly, source says(NYDN)
The Corrupt Speaker Replaced By Corrupt Tammany Hall County Party Leaders
All the Machines Men and All the Lobbyists Horses Could Not Put Shelly Together Again
He should have been stronger: Dump Silver. Compared with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Controller Tom DiNapoli, Cuomo was a profile in courage. Neither said boo. To their credit, city Controller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James also called for Silver to step down. As did only a handful of Assembly Democrats: Charles Barron of Brooklyn, Luis Sepulveda of the Bronx, Mickey Kearns of western New York, Carrie Woerner of Saratoga Springs, Al Stirpe of the Syracuse area and, in a major break, Keith Wright of Manhattan, who also serves as the county Democratic boss.
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The Untold Story: The Collapse of the Democratic Machine
Cuomo vows to eliminate "power of big money in campaigns" in video at War of the Machines: WFP Attacks Democratic Power Centers
Sunday Update WFP Co-Chair Bob Master wants party to endorse Cuomo:
Saturday Update: WFP Meeting With Senate GOP Leaders on Public Financing. Expect the WFP to put a placeholder on their ballot line to give them until late July to hammer out a deal
De Blasio headlines fund-raiser for ACORN honcho(NYP)The mayor is rewarding former ACORN honcho and longtime pal Bertha Lewis by headlining a fund-raiser for her new group, The Black Institute. “It’s a big deal for me. It’s a coup to have the mayor and Chirlane there. It’s The Black Institute’s coming-out party!” Lewis told The Post Wednesday night. The invitation to the gala, which asks donors to contribute up to $50,000, is being held Thursday night at the 32BJ SEIU headquarters in Chelsea.* Skelos: Public Financing Debate Won’t Break Up Coalition(YNN)* Skelos also told reporters that there have been “discussions” taking place on public campaign financing and said “we’ll see,” the Daily News reports:
* * Progressives worry that the future of the state’s Democratic Party lies with Cuomo, who is described as a moderate and has pushed for progressive change on social and cultural issues but has clashed with progressives on economic issues, Vox writes:
* Skelos sees ways to fund public financing without taxpayer money
*Klein Scores Endorsement of Koppell Protégé(NYO) Councilman Andrew Cohen, Mr. Koppell’s protégé, and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who represents Mr. Koppell’s Riverdale turf, announced they were throwing their support behind State Senator Jeff Klein*Conservative Party Warns Republicans: Don’t Go There on Public Financing(YNN) Mike Long warns Senate Rs: If public financing goes through it's a vote for the WFP *
Working Families Party Honors QueensOfficials(Queens Tribune)
* Klein Gets Key Endorsements from Riverdale Officials
As the Old Democratic Machines Weaken New Organizations A Created to Fill the Power Vacum * * Progressives worry that the future of the state’s Democratic Party lies with Cuomo, who is described as a moderate and has pushed for progressive change on social and cultural issues but has clashed with progressives on economic issues, Vox writes:
* Skelos sees ways to fund public financing without taxpayer money
*Klein Scores Endorsement of Koppell Protégé(NYO) Councilman Andrew Cohen, Mr. Koppell’s protégé, and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who represents Mr. Koppell’s Riverdale turf, announced they were throwing their support behind State Senator Jeff Klein*Conservative Party Warns Republicans: Don’t Go There on Public Financing(YNN) Mike Long warns Senate Rs: If public financing goes through it's a vote for the WFP *
Working Families Party Honors QueensOfficials(Queens Tribune)
* Klein Gets Key Endorsements from Riverdale Officials
Government Funded Unions? (CrainsNY) How a powerful nonprofit uses government funds to help unions target employers. Make the Road New York, is closely aligned with organized labor and has quietly become a force in local politics. It was a major player in the successful push to mandate paid sick leave at most city businesses, and now its car-wash legislation is being moved through the City Council by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. Make the Road's millions of dollars in government contracts have helped it grow a membership that it then recruits for unionization drives. The organization says car-wash employees have been victimized by unsavory owners. But its campaign raises questions about public money furthering an effort to unionize private employers. Make the Road's roots lie in late-1990s organizing campaigns in New York's Hispanic community in Bushwick, Brooklyn, but its reach now extends across the city and into Long Island. In its 2012 annual report, the group labeled itself a "robust multiservice powerhouse" that aided tens of thousands of people that year and had registered 20,000 immigrant Latino and African-American voters.
* Weaken Political Machines, Goodbye Tammany Hall
Last Hurrah
The Progressives , Unions and Working Families Party won the speakers position with Mark-Viverito. It may be all over for the Democratic party bosses. The city's GOP bosses died long ago kept alive by Bloomberg dollars and what every they can extort from the elected officials to get through the BOE toll gate The party bosses have like their partners at the city papers become disconnected from the city's voters.* Rise of the New Machines: Mayor and Labor Supplant County Organizations(NYO)
Boss Crowley Meets the New Speaker
and the Mayor Who Made Her
De Blasio and Crowley Make Amends at Queens Three Kings Celebration(NY1)
he holiday spirit of reconciliation was in the air in Queens Sunday,
with Mayor de Blasio embracing a recent political rival..
Biggest Losses Queens GOP Boss Crowley his Mini Me Parkside's Evan Stavisky
Crowley is like Sonny Liston in 1965 getting knock out by a young Cassius Clay in one punch. The fact is Crowley never put together a deal to elect a council speaker, the late Queens boss Thomas Manton did for Quinn and Miller. Crowley's power came from being able to keep his borough together 4 councilmembers from his borough broke from him and help elect the new speaker. Parkside's Evan Stavisky was always a loser being saved over and over by his partnership with Crowley. Parkside who lost 5 of the 6 council races for the Crowley in 2009 when on to make millions from the Albany senate democrats in 2010 and 2012. And million more from the PAC Jobs4NY this year losing race after race.*
Parkside Groups A Big Loser in Speakers Race
A Born Loser Protected By His Boss Crowley
Boss Crowley's Right Guy Stavisky is Are Born Losers
The Parkside Group's Evan Stavisky is using the Supreme Courts Citizen United ruling to completely hide from the city and state campaign disclosure reporting reporting system. In 2009 Parkside lost 5 of the 6 council campaign there were running for the Queens organization. Stavisky ran the so called independent expenditure PSC Jobs4NY which spent $7 million to elect council members to elect help the Queens organization pick the next speaker. Last years Parkside made $1.8 million in lobbying fees. Parkside also took in $2.77 million from the democratic state senate PAC to put the dems back in control of the senate, they failed.
Losing the Council Speaker Race is The Last Hurrah of the Political Bosses
The
progressives unions and WFP have become better at controlling the
city's dysfunctional election system than the permanent government. All
the papers supported and lost with Quinn and Squadron. The Queens Boss
supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the
Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the
GOP side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary,
but the voters in their party did. In in golden era Tammany Hall was
corrupt but delivered jobs and services to the community. 
There were
hundreds of political clubs that empowered neighborhoods (gave them a
collective voice), were locals completed for services and the chance to
run for office. Today the part boss system like everything else in the
city is disconnected connected from the public and serves only to keep a
small group of the political class in power. Their mini me's the
lobbyist get paid not to empower the community but to mislead or
trick into supporting their clients. If the old Tammany Hall existed
today it is hard to see how the real estate interests would be allow to
break up neighborhoods all around the city, like they have.Last Weekend True News Story that Waged the Speaker's Race
Can the Democratic Bosses Hold On?
If the Progressives , Unions and Working Families Party wins the speakers position with Mark-Viverito it may be all over for the Democratic party bosses. The city's GOP bosses died long ago kept alive by Bloomberg dollars and what every they can extort from the elected officials to get through the BOE toll gate The party bosses have like their partner at the city papers become disconnected from the city's voters.
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Losing the Council Speaker Race Would be The Last Hurrah of the Political Bosses
The
progressives unions and WFP have become better at controlling the
city's dysfunctional election system than the permanent government. All
the papers supported and lost with Quinn and Squadron. The Queens Boss
supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the
Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the
GOP side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary,
but the voters in their party did. In in golden era Tammany Hall was
corrupt but delivered jobs and services to the community. There were
hundreds of political clubs that empowered neighborhoods (gave them a
collective voice), were locals completed for services and the chance to
run for office. Today the part boss system like everything else in the
city is disconnected connected from the public and serves only to keep a
small group of the political class in power. Their mini me's the
lobbyist get paid not to empower the community but to mislead or
trick into supporting their clients. If the old Tammany Hall existed
today it is hard to see how the real estate interests would be allow to
break up neighborhoods all around the city, like they have.
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The End of Tammany Hall Will Not Be Covered
The Media Which Covered the Phony Debates of the Speaker Candidates Is Missing the Possible End of A Boss System That Has Governed the City for 100 Years
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New Top Cop Meets the New Boss
Ray Kelly ‘content’ to quit as top dog(NYP)
Bratton faces challenges over crime trends, stop-frisk reform(NYP)
Saturday Bratton Meeting With Sharpton Former Foe; Sunday the Rev. Joins the War Room In Selling the New Bratton
Rev. Al Sharpton writes for The News: There is a real chance for change with Bill Bratton driving police force(NYDN)
Sharpton Filling NYC's
Power Vacuum
Team de Blasio moves quick to wipe out Bratton Giuliani story line
Bratton: "your police force will be respectful *Bratton says one of his big regrets is never having met Mandela * "We have has our good days and bad."@TheRevAl says about Bratton. Says he worked with him in LA.* Incoming NYPD chief William Bratton pledges equality during appearance with Al Sharpton and Mayor-elect de Blasio: (WSJ)
Bratton joins Sharpton at rally in Harlem(WABC) * At a Sharpton rally, Bill Bratton invokes Mandela, from (Capital) * Bratton pledges 'respectful' NY police behavior (Fox 5) *Bratton, at Sharpton HQ, pledges respect to community(Newsday) * Incoming Police Chief Bill Bratton On NYPD: "It Will Practice What Mandela Preached" (NYDN)* Bratton Says NYPD Will Be Committed To Freedom And Equality For All (NY1) * Bratton's First Stop as Top Cop: Al Sharpton's Headquarters(NY Mag) * In Sharpton's House, Bratton Vows to 'Practice What Mandela Preached'(NYO)*Bratton Pledges "Respectful" NYPD Behavior(NBC) * De Blasio, Bratton join Sharpton at Mandela tribute(WABC) * A NEW HOPE: Incoming NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton vows to reform stop, frisk — but won't end it(NYDN)
Bratton Tells NAN he Will Run NYPD with Mandela's Message: Respect for All
.@TheRevAl says when he first heard Bratton was doing good things in LA, he was skeptical *.@deBlasioNYC
"we all know the history of the LAPD...poster child of how to do things
wrong." Bratton changed that. That's why he chose him. * .@deBlasioNYC says he and Bratton have frequently spoken about overuse of stop-and-frisk. "You can't break the law" to enforce it, he says *.@deBlasioNYC "as I think of the days ahead, were going to work for social and econ justice every single day."* .@TheRevAl said @deBlasioNYC "went to jail" to protest hospital closings. actually -- he got arrested & given a summons, did not go to jail * Stop and Frisk the Campaign and After Video
* New Police Commissioner Same as the Old Police Commissioner
Did Bratton's apparent success in LA also just really come from gentrification? And if so, damn is this dude lucky to strike gold twice
Bratton’s Time in California May Offer Clues to His Plans for New York Police(NYT) The
incoming commissioner, William J. Bratton, has relied on many of the
aggressive techniques that have proved divisive in the city, while
navigating complicated racial tensions.* New Police Chief Faces Less Crime, More Counterterrorism (WSJ)* De Blasio, Bratton Join Rev. Al Sharpton For Rally(CBS
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Thelma Wylde Louise Stavisky About to Drive NY's Permanent Government Off the Clift
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New Top Cop Meets the New Boss
Bratton faces challenges over crime trends, stop-frisk reform(NYP)
Rev. Al Sharpton writes for The News: There is a real chance for change with Bill Bratton driving police force(NYDN)
Sharpton Filling NYC's
Power Vacuum
Team de Blasio moves quick to wipe out Bratton Giuliani story line
Bratton: "your police force will be respectful *Bratton says one of his big regrets is never having met Mandela * "We have has our good days and bad."
Bratton Tells NAN he Will Run NYPD with Mandela's Message: Respect for All
* New Police Commissioner Same as the Old Police Commissioner
Did Bratton's apparent success in LA also just really come from gentrification? And if so, damn is this dude lucky to strike gold twice
Bratton’s Time in California May Offer Clues to His Plans for New York Police(NYT) The
incoming commissioner, William J. Bratton, has relied on many of the
aggressive techniques that have proved divisive in the city, while
navigating complicated racial tensions.* New Police Chief Faces Less Crime, More Counterterrorism (WSJ)* De Blasio, Bratton Join Rev. Al Sharpton For Rally(CBS.
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Thelma Wylde Louise Stavisky About to Drive NY's Permanent Government Off the Clift
If
you think New York's sports team are having a bad year, check out
the leader of the Partnership. Partnership Boss Wylde allowed the
Working Families Party, unions and the progressives to take over the
mayor's and Public Advocate's office and maybe the city
council . Wylde counted on her usual partners Virginia resident
Corrupt Queens' Boss Joe Crowley and Corrupt Parkside lobbyist Evan
Stavisky to line up enough
councilmembers to elect Mark Weprin as Council Speaker. Wylde never saw
the writing on the wall. Just how out of touch Boss Crowley was with
the voters and when it come to real competitive races the Parkside Group
sucks. In 2009 the Parkside Group lost 5 of 6 Queens Council races.
After being paid over $2 million in 2012 by the state senate Democrats
Parkside could not return them to the majority. This year Parkside
spent more than $7 million of REBNY and still lost most of their target
council races. Parkside loses are a key factor in giving Team
Progressives a real shot at taking over the council. As long as
clueless Wylde is running the Partnership New York's failed corrupt boss
system of government will never be reformed. Once Team Progressive wins
the speakership their next move will be to clean up the BOE to take the
remaining power from the city's political bosses.
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The Fight for the Control of NY
Power Shifting in Council Speakers Race
de Blasio Fills NYC's Power Vacuum
Four Factors Make de Blasio's Message and Control Stronger
1. For the first time in 20 years the mayor is from the majority party. (NYC has now become a one party city. 2. The Democratic Party leaders are on life support struggling to hold on to the council speakers position. They used to fight each other for who gets to control the speakers position, now they are working together to hold off the unions and progressives.
Partnership and Permanent Government Counting On the Disconnected Corrupt Party Leaders Deliver. Can They?
Late Queens Boss Thomas Manton Lead Deal Maker in Last Three Council Speakers Races . . . Is Crowley Up to the Task?
CrainsNY Offers Details of A Blowup between the Queens Democratic Machine and the Progressive Caucus
A recent negotiating snafu demonstrates the conflict between the city's old and new political forces. About three weeks ago, council members from Queens who are part of the Progressive Caucus scheduled a meeting at the Queens office of law firm Sweeney Gallo Reich & Bolz. The firm's partners run the day-to-day operations of the borough's Democratic Party, and the progressives hoped to persuade them to partner in lining up the 26 votes needed to elect a speaker. Just hours before the meeting, the leaders of the Queens Democratic machine learned that Ms. Hirsh of 32BJ would attend in her capacity as lead negotiator, according to multiple sources. The Democratic leadership, whose executive director declined to comment, demanded that only elected officials be allowed in the room. The Progressive Caucus refused, and the meeting was canceled, sparking tensions between the two most powerful forces in this year's speaker race. A flurry of phone calls seeking to mend the rift has ensued, according to sources.
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Inside Werpin Team Leader Parkside
Parkside
Has Built A Monopoly Through Their Partnership With the Corrupt Queens
Democratic Organization and Its Connection to the Permanent Government
Mclaughlin Helped Create Parkside, Many of the Groups That Brian Was Convicted for Ripping Off Hired Parkside As A Consultant Parkside worked for Mclaughlin and the Petrocelli lighting company who Brian was convicted of fixing the city's biding process. Mclaughlin was also convicted for ripping off his own union that Parkside worked for. Parkside runs almost ever campaign for the Queens Democratic Organization. * Consultants Parkside Come To Crowley’s Defense After Weprin Defeat. Both Parkside and Crowley have gamed the Election system to make $$$ In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate's Court - NYTimes.com.
Crowley
hangs onto power mostly through their operative Parkside and mike
Nussbaum Multi Media which is both a political consultant and VP or a
lot of Queens Newspapers. Relationships between consultants are not
required to be recorded. So there is no way to tell how big Parkside
Monopoly of politics, lobbying and local journalism is in Queens. A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians.
Most to the state election Parkside runs in Queens are fixed special
elections that does not require heavy lifting to win. In the council
races in 2009 Parkside faced matching funds and multi-candidates field.
In those races Parkside lost 5 of the 6 Queens races they ran.
Organize Crime Politics and Lobbying: Make Money From Government or Connections to Government
Parkside was very deeply involved in the city council slush fund scandal. Stavisky group was paid a total of $1.7 million by more than 40 clients in 2005, nonprofit receiving member items from the city council. In
2005 in a NYT article Dick Dadey executive director of Citizens
Union expressed concern about what he called "a growing problem" of
council members being lobbied by firms that serve as political
consultants to many of them. Team Parkside SpokesPaper CrainsNY Attacks Alison Hirsh the Union Lobbyists Working to Take Over the City Council
A top union official who was labor's lead negotiator in the deal to pass landmark paid-sick-leave legislation this year is now the chief negotiator for the council's Progressive Caucus in the horse-trading that will determine the next speaker. Alison Hirsh, the political director of the influential building workers' union, 32BJ SEIU, is bargaining with the county Democratic bosses who control other blocs of votes in the race. Ms. Hirsh's role is indicative of organized labor's growing power in city government, attributable in part to Bill de Blasio's union-backed election and the withering influence of traditional Democratic clubhouse leaders.
Alison Hirsh From Vito Lopez to the Progressives?
Making A deal on Jobs, None Profit Contracts, Member Items and Future Indictments
The NYT Has Nothing About the Council Speakers Race or the Background Deals Being Cut to Elect the New Speaker
New Council Turn to the Left No Conservative Counterweight
NYT's Dear in Headlight Reporting
New York City Council set to lean further to the left as 21 new members come aboard(NYDN)With a number of young progressives among them, the new members are likely to work with Mayor Bill de Blasio to expand workers’ rights and impose new burdens on businesses. Bloomberg had for years been a conservative counterweight against the 51-member Council.
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Why Did Bloomberg Wait for 12 Years to Tell Truth
He Put Up His Money to Buy the Party Bosses and Their Ballot Lines Why Doesn't Bloomberg He Spend to Get Rid of Them?
I don't think it can get any worse': Bloomberg says public must rise up to fight wave of corruption (NYDN)The mayor
said on his radio show that the political system is ‘like the school
system that's designed for the people who work there and not for the
people they are supposed to help.’The only way to stop the spate of crooked pols and fix New York's
“broken” political system is a public uprising against greedy party
bosses, Mayor Bloomberg said Friday on his radio show.“I don't think it can get any worse," the mayor told WOR-AM host John Gambling
. "You have to have a revolution among voters."* The Media Ignores NY's Corrupt Political Parties During the Worse Coverage of A Mayor's Race in History * New York's Corrupt Political Party Leaders
Pay to Play Crowley
A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens (NYT)In 1998 Newfield reported that Frank Bolz III, chairman of the Queens Democratic Party's law committee, is the single biggest recipient of assignments from Nahman - collecting $178,050 for 47 paid guardianship appointments since 1992.
Brooklyn Boss
Seddio: Leave the Gun Take the Cannolis(True News) The
problem the reformers have with Seddio is that except for the Daily
News warning the press has done very little to inform them who is the
real Frank Seddio. There is a lot to be learned by investigating how
Seddio used the machine and government to make $$$ and remain in power
in a community with dramatic racial change and his loss of ability to
deliver the vote.Moderator
Mark Fertig asked Seddio and the other candidates running if Planning
Board 18 manager Dorothy Turano should be fired because of her
involvement in the Kruger scandal. Seddio did not only answer the
question but he called Fertig a very inappropriate name.It
is clear from the guilty plea of Kruger and his lobbyist Lipsky that
Planning Board 18 manager Dorothy Turano was deeply involved in the
Kruger corruption. Yet astonishly she still remains as chairman of that
board. Weak Seddio Bull Shits the Refomers Who Are Scared to Stand Up For Reform
Real Bronx Bosses
The Gonzalez Schlein Cover Up
Schlein A Career Political Criminal
He was also in the hotel suite with Mr. Bloomberg on election night
2001, calling in chits. Afterward, the new mayor appointed Mr. Schlein
as the $63,000-per-year chairman of the city’s Civil Service Commission.
A few years back, the city Conflicts of Interest Board fined Mr. Schlein
$15,000 for using his city office as a de facto law office, making more
than 2,000 phone calls related to his private business. Mr. Schlein
resigned in 2006. Mr. Schlein also served as a court-appointed fiduciary, a lucrative
billet open to loyal Democratic Party worthies. That too ended badly. In
2006, the Office of Court Administration barred him from taking new
assignments, as he had apparently badly handled the finances of the
infirm and the elderly.* *In an investigative profile in The Village Voice, Tom Robbins delves into Stanley Schlein's record * Schlein the Lawyer Making Bronx Judges -- Again (Village Voice) * Bronx City Council member Larry Seabrook's go-to guy was longtime powerbroker Stanley Schlein(NYDN) * RECENT ALLIES PEDRO ESPADA, STANLEY SCHLEIN HAD ...(NYP) * Lobbyists Stanley Schlein
The Media is Not Examining Who Are the Power Brokers Who Are Picking the Next Council Speaker And What Have They Extractive From Government Already
Crowley
who has his own slush fund in the Queens Surrogate Court wants to make
sure his councilmember have a member items slush fund to fund the
non-profits his party controls. A group of politically connected unions
leaders are licking their chops over the power Boss Crowley and his
merry men bosses in the Bronx. Brooklyn and Manhattan have in city
government and want it for themselves. As they seek to cut out the party
leaders with the help of serial corrupt Advance Group they have
covered their power take over in the progressive movement, as they try
to make Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito the next speaker. This fight
between the party bosses and union leaders to control government is all
being done out of public sight. While every winning councilmember
promised more transparency in city government they are negotiating in
secret with party leaders and lobbyists like Berling Rosen, Mercury,
Brandford, Red Horse, Arzt and Hudson who help elect them to pick the
next speaker. Even the Progressive Caucus is considering a secret ballot
for the council speaker to hide from voters on who is controlling the
council and deals cut.
The Media Never Covered the Effect That Citizen United Had On New York City Elections . . . The Way Consultants Manipulated Millions in PAC Dollars
Citizen United Centralizing Power
Two lobbyists consultants Advance and Parkside who are opposing each other in the speaker fight helped dozens of councilmembers through the millions spent on the PACs they controlled, Jobs4NY, NYCLASS, United for the Future and Citizens Action. The media never wrote about has Citizens United gave control to almost every NYC campaign to 8 consultant lobbyist - shifted power from local brokers more in tuned with local needs to citywide ones funded by special interests. The media is not even informing the public if Bronx Mini Me Stanley Schlein is cutting a deal with the next speaker to remain in control of the corrupt Board Of Elections. The Media is not examining if the UFT President Mulgrew and his fellow union leaders are cutting a deal to make a council speaker who will agree to fully fund back pay to union members in the next contract. Wayne Barrett wrote in the Village Voice in 2010. that campaign consultant lobbyist makes kings so he can then make deals with the kings he’s made." By the media not reporting who is cutting the deal they must be waiting to report which of the power broker will be indicted and call for public financing of campaigns from the jail cell. LAWMAKERS WHO SING The gossip media does cover Councilman Mark Weprin participating in a musical this past weekend. We wonder if he does become speaker will he exit the same way that other City Hall leader Jimmy Walker left after letting the lobbyists and pols steal the people's money.The Media Failed Campaign 2013, Now They Are Failing the Speakers Race
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Working Families Party
Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed - NYTimes.com * All In The Family Part 1 * Cuomo declines Working Families ballot line - Crain's New York ...
Working chutzpah Party(NYP Ed)
Sheldon Leffler, Former Councilman, Is Convicted in Campaign Fraud Scheme(NYT)
Sheldon Leffler Hit With $400G Fine
Queens pol Albert Baldeo busted for using straw campaign donors ...
Highest Paid Lobbyist
The NYC clerk released the annual list of the highest-paid lobbyists and highest-paying clients in the Big Apple.
The top ten lobbyists by compensation were:
Kasirer Consulting ($6,059,486), James F. Capalino & Associates ($3,317,406), Constantinople & Vallone Consulting ($2,507,500), Bolton-St. Johns ($ 2,390,266), Greenberg Traurig ($2,334,294), Manatt, Phelps & Phillips ($2,067,481) Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson ($1,971,509), Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel ($1,889,915), Parkside Group ($1,729,036), and Davidoff Hutcher & Citron ($1,629,390).
NY Crime Ridden Political Parties
NY Political Parties for Sale: BallotCorruption
2009 Election Probe Emerges Again(WSJ) Political opponents accused the Working Families Party of running Data
and Field Services as a cut-rate political consultancy for its 2009
candidates, essentially giving those contenders an in-kind campaign
contribution without disclosing it to the public. The party and the
consultancy have said the rates weren't artificially inexpensive.* Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed - NYTimes.com 
* Bronx GOP Boss Jay Savino busted in bribery scheme • Bronx Times * Indy Party chief in jam over wife loan
The wife of the chairman of the state Independence Party solicited
and received a $10,000 business loan from a candidate who got the
party's coveted endorsement days later. (NYP)
* The New York Daily News’ Ken Lovett reportsIndependence
Party goes along with GOP scheme to dodge campaign finance laws,
insiders allege New York Independence Party has gotten major cash influx
from state Senate GOP in arrangement questioned by political
insiders.The state Senate GOP committee and REBNY in the last six months
of 2012 donated a combined $464,000 to the Independence Party.
Independence Party, or GOP annex? *Bloomberg's Recent Independence Party Donations* Independence Party Is Really A Cult(True News) * Ray Harding, former head of NY Liberal party, pleads guilty to taking $800K in pension fund scandal Raymond B. Harding Pleads Guilty in Pension Fund Corruption (NYT) *Indictment Over Bloomberg Campaign Funds (NYT) * * Vito Lopez Uses Government Funds to Run His Machine(True News) * A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens (NYT)In 1998 Newfield reported that Frank Bolz III,
chairman of the Queens Democratic Party's law committee, is the
single biggest recipient of assignments from Nahman - collecting
$178,050 for 47 paid guardianship appointments since 1992. Bronx Republican Leader Manhattan
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been investigating the aqueduct deal
all year, as he has the simultaneous $50 million voting machine
contract awarded by the city election board to a company, Election
Systems & Software (ES&S), also represented by Sheinkopf and
Levy. * Brooklyn Boss Seddio Pay to Play Like Kruger and Sampson(True News)
The Board of Elections is the Headquarters of the Organize Crime Party Bosses
NYPIRG listings showed that Sheinkopf had the third largest
increase in compensation between 2008 and 2009, while Levy was ninth. Schlein
was on the opposite side of the voting machine competition,
representing the losing company that’s now suing. One source said
Schlein was working with John Haggerty, the Republican consultant under
indictment for stealing a million
in campaign funds from Mayor Bloomberg and a recent top aide to Carl
Paladino. Haggerty, who was said to have periodically appeared at the
board, did not file as a lobbyist on the deal. A lobbyist working with
Sheinkopf and Levy for ES&S, Anthony Mangone, was arrested by the
feds on unrelated bribery charges the day after the January board
decision. Jay Savino, the Bronx Republican county leader who nominated
Foglia to be the party’s commissioner on the Board of Elections, shares
an office suite with Mangone and has already been subpoenaed in the
case, just one more way these incestuous circles swirl. Foglia says his
relationship with Savino is “cordial.” More on the BOE Corruption, More * BOE Scanner Vendor Paying Grandson of Queens GOP Leader Payoff for A Pay to Play Contract(True News) * Tabone steps down as Queens GOP honcho amid corruption probe ...(NYP)
Daily News to BOE Stop Knocking Off Challengers
The News chides the Board of Elections for “going overboard” in trying to knock candidates off the ballot and argues the State Court of Appeals should reverse the board’s decisions: http://nydn.us/13QAGMG
Seddio: Leave the Gun Take the Cannolis(True News) The
problem the reformers have with Seddio is that except for the Daily
News warning the press has done very little to inform them who is the
real Frank Seddio. There is a lot to be learned by investigating how
Seddio used the machine and government to make $$$ and remain in power
in a community with dramatic racial change and his loss of ability to
deliver the vote.Moderator
Mark Fertig asked Seddio and the other candidates running if Planning
Board 18 manager Dorothy Turano should be fired because of her
involvement in the Kruger scandal. Seddio did not only answer the
question but he called Fertig a very inappropriate name.It
is clear from the guilty plea of Kruger and his lobbyist Lipsky that
Planning Board 18 manager Dorothy Turano was deeply involved in the
Kruger corruption. Yet astonishly she still remains as chairman of that
board.
There
is evidence that since the City Council shake up Of the Board of Election’s
commissioners, the Board has become more corrupt. The board is now being
run by several key council members and their political pals. Led by Councilman
James Oddo the 4 GOP members of the council now have more power than the GOP
county leaders. They have picked the new
GOP bosses in Staten Island, the Bronx and are along with Senator Golden trying
to dump the Brooklyn GOP leader. With
the help of the council GOP gang of 4 Senator Golden push out GOP chairman Craig Eaton guy at
the BOE and replaced him with his supporter Simon Shamoun. Now Golden is trying to use his control of the
BOE to drive out Brooklyn GOP county leader Eaton. Since Shamoun took over at the BOE, employees
put in the job by Eaton have experienced constant threats of losing their
jobs. Shamoun bullied most of the Eaton job holders
to join Golden slate running against Eaton.
Getting a patronage job at the BOE has often been described as the last
stop. Meaning, that board workers have
problems finding jobs. Not the Donald Trump independent type.
City Council Report: Meet the New Boss Nydia velazquez
Former Councilman Ken Fisher wrote an op-ed about congressional members' influence in the primary races (NYO)
In Queens, City Council candidate Austin Shafran conceded the race to rival Paul Vallone, who got a lot of support from Jobs for New York. [Azi Paybarah] * Advice to Democratic City Council primary winners: instead of education-themed photo-ops and reading to little kids, try visiting local schools (not ones that got As or Bs) and spend a few hours in a classroom with an "average" teacher. [Ben Max]* "How the heck does a man who works as an aide to a city councilman even qualify for one of these coveted, subsidized apartments?" [New York Post] * Headline of the Day: “Astoria City Council candidate claims New Orleans home as primary residence.” * City Congressional Delegation Looks to Expand Its Electoral Influence(NYO)
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Jobs4NY's Parkside Lobbyists for the Media
Not One Story About Parkside's Role in Jobs4NY
The New York Newspaper Guild pays the Parkside Group $60,000 a year to lobby for them. It is strange that the major role Parkside plays in state and local elections it never gets written about. Parkside ran Jobs4NY for the real estate industry which spent millions buying future councilmembers. The Newspaper Guild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933 who noticed that unionized printers and truck drivers were making more money than they did. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices.
REBNY | Jobs For New York PAC - The Real Deal * Lobbyist Has a Dual Role at City Hall - New York Times(2005) * True News: A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians * A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney | Room Eight
Elected Officials, Reformer, Goo Goos Groups Silent On Party Reform
It
has been 50 years
since anyone has tried to reform New York's Democratic Party. In the
mid 60's Robert Kennedy who defeated the democratic machine to become
senator set his sights on cleaning up the state's Democratic Party.
Kennedy tried to clean up Manhattan’s Surrogate Court, which to this day
remains a Piggy bank for party patronage. Kennedy called the Court "a
political toll booth exacting tribute from widows and orphans." He took
aim at cronyism in Albany and fought to strengthen home rule of New York
City. He also proposed nonpartisan redistricting, a move aimed at
eliminating one of the main tools party leaders use to keep their
incumbents in office for decades. Fiercely battled by a faction of the
Democratic machine, Kennedy’s attempts reform the city's political
parties died with his 1968 assassination. So called reformer and good
government groups have never taken up his cause.
District Leader Too Old?
Staten Island Democrat Claims He Lost Party Post Because Of His Age(DNAINFO) PORT RICHMOND — A Democrat from Staten Island claims he lost his party post because of his age and has started to rally support for the chairman to resign. Robert Castro, 62, of Port Richmond, said he was asked to step down as North Shore district leader for the Staten Island Democratic Party and was offered a position as the Hispanic Outreach coordinator for the party — but the promised spot never was given to him, the Staten Island Advance first reported.
New York Party Bosses Can't Deliver the Vote Anymore
Permanent Bosses Broken Parties
Today both the Daily News and City and State both have done stories crediting the Working Families Party with winning the Mayoral election. What both papers failed to talk about is the disconnect of the city's Democrats and Republicans party bosses from the voters in their own parties. In other words they can no long deliver the vote. More importantly they represent only themselves and a few close criminal co-conspirators in dysfunctional parties that have cut off the public they claim to represent. The Queens Boss supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the Queens side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary, but the voters in their party did.
Party Bosses and Ballot Lines For Sale
Former Bronx Republican Party leader Jay Savino and Queens GOP Vice Chair Vincent Tabone wait for their used
to selling their party line to Bloomberg tried to sell their party this
year to Malcolm Smith. The Queens party leaders even lost control of who runs the Board of Elections. It very strange that the media is doing story of Bill
Lipton's WFP big win and not talking about who the losers are. What the
newspaper should be looking into is not only the corruption connected
to these party leaders, but how few people participate in party
elections and picking who leads party bosses. Why are the newspapers and
the city's permanent
government, led by the partnership protecting the party leaders? The
cluelessness of their Quinn endorsement shows they are as disconnected
from the voters as the party bosses are. The permanent government has
allowe a political and election system where only cleaver activists from
the WFP know how to win in. And a media that covers the horse race
rather the getting to the realities of the real issues that effect New
Yorkers. The Working Families Party's long game is paying off(NYDN) * Last Look: Bill Lipton (City and State)
Robert Kennedy Last NY Pol That Tried to Reform the Party Bosses
Incumbent Protection
Party Leaders
Elected officials have taken over the party positions with the sole purpose of centralizing power and using it resources to help them get reelected. The party has no agenda or issue it pushes for. Most of the people in party positions have never beenchallenged. It function more like the old soviet union' Communist Party, then a democratic institution. It is even allow according to the U.S. Supreme Court to use politics to pick judges. Lopez Torres v. NYS Bd of Elections
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Elected Officials, Reformer, Goo Goos Groups Silent On Party Reform
It
has been 50 years
since anyone has tried to reform New York's Democratic Party. In the
mid 60's Robert Kennedy who defeated the democratic machine to become
senator set his sights on cleaning up the state's Democratic Party.
Kennedy tried to clean up Manhattan’s Surrogate Court, which to this day
remains a Piggy bank for party patronage. Kennedy called the Court "a
political toll booth exacting tribute from widows and orphans." He took
aim at cronyism in Albany and fought to strengthen home rule of New York
City. He also proposed nonpartisan redistricting, a move aimed at
eliminating one of the main tools party leaders use to keep their
incumbents in office for decades. Fiercely battled by a faction of the
Democratic machine, Kennedy’s attempts reform the city's political
parties died with his 1968 assassination. So called reformer and good
government groups have never taken up his cause.
. "You have to have a revolution among voters."* The Media Ignores NY's Corrupt Political Parties During the Worse Coverage of A Mayor's Race in History * New York's Corrupt Political Party Leaders One Corrupt Political Boss Will Pick the Next Speaker
Queens Boss
Pay to Play Crowley
A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens (NYT)In 1998 Newfield reported that Frank Bolz III, chairman of the Queens Democratic Party's law committee, is the single biggest recipient of assignments from Nahman - collecting $178,050 for 47 paid guardianship appointments since 1992.
Brooklyn Boss
Real Bronx Bosses
The Gonzalez Schlein Cover Up
The
City's Knew Schlein Was Involved With the Ballot Fixing At the Board in
2010 . . . He Appointed the Commissioner Who Was Forced to Resign
In
October, 2010, the Board of Elections booted executive director George
Gonzalez after revelations that he had incorrectly placed Wills on the
Republican ballot line beneath GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl
Paladino, rather than beneath Democrat Andrew Cuomo, among other
mistakes. The error would likely have cost Wills votes in the heavily
Democratic district, but ballots were eventually fixed. A number of
people close to the situation suspected the ballot placement was
politically motivated, given Gonzalez’s close connections with election
lawyer Stanley Schlein, who was serving as the attorney for Nicole
Paultre-Bell, Wills’ chief rival in the Council race. * Election Board's "Bungle George" Gonzalez Was Mayor Bloomberg's Baby(Village Voice)
Schlein A Career Political Criminal
The Media is Not Examining Who Are the Power Brokers Who Are Picking the Next Council Speaker And What Have They Extractive From Government Already
Crowley
who has his own slush fund in the Queens Surrogate Court wants to make
sure his councilmember have a member items slush fund to fund the
non-profits his party controls. A group of politically connected unions
leaders are licking their chops over the power Boss Crowley and his
merry men bosses in the Bronx. Brooklyn and Manhattan have in city
government and want it for themselves. As they seek to cut out the party
leaders with the help of serial corrupt Advance Group they have
covered their power take over in the progressive movement, as they try
to make Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito the next speaker. This fight
between the party bosses and union leaders to control government is all
being done out of public sight. While every winning councilmember
promised more transparency in city government they are negotiating in
secret with party leaders and lobbyists like Berling Rosen, Mercury,
Brandford, Red Horse, Arzt and Hudson who help elect them to pick the
next speaker. Even the Progressive Caucus is considering a secret ballot
for the council speaker to hide from voters on who is controlling the
council and deals cut.The Media Never Covered the Effect That Citizen United Had On New York City Elections . . . The Way Consultants Manipulated Millions in PAC Dollars
Citizen United Centralizing Power
Two lobbyists consultants Advance and Parkside who are opposing each other in the speaker fight helped dozens of councilmembers through the millions spent on the PACs they controlled, Jobs4NY, NYCLASS, United for the Future and Citizens Action. The media never wrote about has Citizens United gave control to almost every NYC campaign to 8 consultant lobbyist - shifted power from local brokers more in tuned with local needs to citywide ones funded by special interests. The media is not even informing the public if Bronx Mini Me Stanley Schlein is cutting a deal with the next speaker to remain in control of the corrupt Board Of Elections. The Media is not examining if the UFT President Mulgrew and his fellow union leaders are cutting a deal to make a council speaker who will agree to fully fund back pay to union members in the next contract. Wayne Barrett wrote in the Village Voice in 2010. that campaign consultant lobbyist makes kings so he can then make deals with the kings he’s made." By the media not reporting who is cutting the deal they must be waiting to report which of the power broker will be indicted and call for public financing of campaigns from the jail cell. LAWMAKERS WHO SING The gossip media does cover Councilman Mark Weprin participating in a musical this past weekend. We wonder if he does become speaker will he exit the same way that other City Hall leader Jimmy Walker left after letting the lobbyists and pols steal the people's money.The Media Failed Campaign 2013, Now They Are Failing the Speakers Race
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NY's Political Party Crime Culture
Working Families Party
Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed - NYTimes.com * All In The Family Part 1 * Cuomo declines Working Families ballot line - Crain's New York ...
The
Working Families Party is calling for . . . cleaner government by
calling for public financed campaigns. A rich irony: Violating
campaign-finance rules is precisely what the WFP itself has been
repeatedly accused of doing. Lingering Questions On The WFP (CHN)
The Board of Elections is the Headquarters of the Organize Crime Party Bosses
NYPIRG listings showed that Sheinkopf had the third largest
increase in compensation between 2008 and 2009, while Levy was ninth. Schlein
was on the opposite side of the voting machine competition,
representing the losing company that’s now suing. One source said
Schlein was working with John Haggerty, the Republican consultant under
indictment for stealing a million
in campaign funds from Mayor Bloomberg and a recent top aide to Carl
Paladino. Haggerty, who was said to have periodically appeared at the
board, did not file as a lobbyist on the deal. A lobbyist working with
Sheinkopf and Levy for ES&S, Anthony Mangone, was arrested by the
feds on unrelated bribery charges the day after the January board
decision. Jay Savino, the Bronx Republican county leader who nominated
Foglia to be the party’s commissioner on the Board of Elections, shares
an office suite with Mangone and has already been subpoenaed in the
case, just one more way these incestuous circles swirl. Foglia says his
relationship with Savino is “cordial.” More on the BOE Corruption, More * BOE Scanner Vendor Paying Grandson of Queens GOP Leader Payoff for A Pay to Play Contract(True News) * Tabone steps down as Queens GOP honcho amid corruption probe ...(NYP)
How the Media, Pols and DA's Protect Parkside and Ignore Injustice
Why was John Kennedy O'Hara convicted for illegal voting
by Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes for running for office out of his
girlfriend's residence. While Evan Stavisky gets away with being
registered in Queens while he lives with his wife in Rockland County?
Lawyer O'Hara lost his law license which destroyed his life, while
Stavisky makes millions with an incompetent politically connected
consultant company? Why does the press ignore this outrageous legal
injustice? They don't care and they are too dumb to understand.
True News Wags City and State
A Crack in the Journalism Blue Wall of Silence to Protect Parkside Lobbyists and Consultants and their Residency Problem
Last Thursday True News reported that Parkside Evan Stravisky was a district leader in Queens while his wife is the Democratic leader from Rockland County. Today's City and State reports the same NY's Politicals Consultant Monopoly True News has been writing about that arrangement for the past year without a single other publication or reporter picking that up until today. What city and state left out and was it True News is that the Queens Democratic Party protect Parkside. Why else would Rory Lancman who is running for congress hire them after they failed so badly in the Weprin campaign in the same district. Why would the DSCC hire them again after they were the consultants that ran the 2010 campaign where they lost their majority.
Stavisky and His Wife Elected Democratic Officials One Hour's Drive Apart
A Strategic Living Arrangement For Top Democratic Strategist(City and State). The problem with the C&S piece was that it did not examine how their political connections to the Queens Democratic Party keeps Parksides which has lost many high profile elections (Weprin, Democratic State Senate majority) not only alive but making millions.
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The Death of the Party Machine?
The City Source Scandal Led to NYC Public Campaign Fiance System Lobbyists Consultants and Their Progressive Friends Gamed the System with the Help of Supreme Court's Citizen United Decision
In 1986 the Bronx County Leader Stanley Friedman, Brooklyn Boss Esposito and a bunch of Queens party hacks were found guilty for trying to take over the city's Parking
Violations Bureau into a tool for their corrupt personal profit.
Donald Manes killed himself before the trial. Brooklyn boss Meade
Esposito got his in a later trial. Up until this year the county leader
would decide among themselves on who would be council speaker. Council speakers have historically been selected by leaders of borough
political machines lining up votes and getting patronage jobs and plum
committee chairmanships for friends and allies. But as their power to
elect or unelect council members has waned, unions have filled the
vacuum, with the labor-backed Working Families Party playing a part in
electing much of the council.
Beyond the Campaign finance law
Now everyone is spending money to elect council members through PAC and even spending money in the race for speaker. Because this type of competition for Speaker has never happen before their are no rules recording what is being spent with the CFB or the State Board of Elections
Eight campaign
consultants all but one are also lobbyists, have monopolized NYC elections
system that only the Justice Department using the Sherman Antitrust Act can bust.
These consultants run every important campaign in New York. The campaign monopoly is only part of a
conspiracy that is not only about who gets elected. It is also part of a
second conspiracy to make money off of government as lobbyist or insiders.
There is serious evidence of illegal coordination between the Independent Expenditure PACs and
consultants
In this monopoly
consultants work with each other at the same time they are oppose them in other
races. Some consultants help other consultant’s
candidates often at the expense of their own clients. Two Consultant Lobbyists
the Advance Group and the Parkside Group were involved in every
competitive council race and even some that did not have races through
Independent Expenditure PACs they control. These IE PACS have muscled their way
in to having seats at the table along the Democratic Party bosses that will
pick the next council speaker. The big 8 along with the special
interests whose millions fund PACs, have sabotage the whole idea of local
representation and local elections. The pols are more loyal to the centralized
campaign consultants and their money backers, the new ruling class, than they
are to the voters in their districts.
Lobbyists Extortion
What Happens When Lobbbyists Who Ran PACS And Broke the Law With the Candidate Knowledge Ask the Councilmembers for Help With Support for Government Contracts?
The
consultants work like Wall Street investors who trade in dark pools
beyond the control of regulators. In NY's dark pool campaign
consultants/lobbyists,
special interests and elected officials make deals with each other
hidden from public view. To understand the reasons for the
takeover you must also be aware that the business opportunities for consultants
don’t end on primary or election day. In an excellent investigation of the
dangers the newly elected Cuomo would face from lobbyist, Wayne Barrett wrote in the Village
Voice in 2010. that campaign consultant lobbyist "Sheinkopf one of the
worse consultant lobbyist, makes kings so he can then make deals with the kings
he’s made."
Main Stream Media Ignores Advance Corruption Story Already Published In CrainsNY and True News
Who Was the Political Operative Running Anti Gay PAC?
Daily News - "The firm admitted its work for City Action Coalition PAC was
problematic. “We did a favor for a political operative that we have a
longstanding relationship with by sending his mailer to a printer,” an
Advance Group spokeswoman said. “It was a mistake that we regret and is
completely inconsistent with our history.” A Mark-Viverito spokesman, who first denied the pol was working with the
Advance Group, said, “Melissa’s campaign, based on her progressive,
inclusive, and effective tenure on the Council, is generating support
from individuals across NYC.”
Fox5 Has the Advance Group Debating Horse Carriages
Why
Should the City Pay Million for Public Financing of Campaigns If the
Race for Speaker is Being Run By A Lobbyists Which Was Part of A Larger
Conspiracy of Political Consultants to Game the CFB
Daily News - The Advance Group is providing unpaid consultants to Mark-Viverito’s City Council leadership bid, the firm said.
Queens Tribune Endorsed Parkside's Weprin's Speaker's Guy
A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians (2011 True News)
NYT said A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens. True News said it was much more than the court that was fueling that political machine.
Breaking Carolyn Ryan Who Has Deep Political Support At the NYT is Out of NYC
The NYT Has Nothing About the Council Speakers Race or the Background Deals Being Cut to Elect the New Speaker
NYT's Dear in Headlight Reporting
New York City Council set to lean further to the left as 21 new members come aboard(NYDN)With a number of young progressives among them, the new members are likely to work with Mayor Bill de Blasio to expand workers’ rights and impose new burdens on businesses. Bloomberg had for years been a conservative counterweight against the 51-member Council.* 'New York Times' charts new course on Washington coverage: Carolyn Ryan(Capital) * Gray Lady’s ‘Israel lobby’ fixation(NYP Ed)
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The New Tammany Hall
The New Machine are the Campaign Consultant Lobbyists
The 8 royal families of New York City include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse.
The
new Tammany Hall is Worse Than the old Tammany Hall The Old delivered services to the communities this new one does not
The New Tammany Hall
Operating in Secret Dark Pools A Mob of Campaign Consultants/ Lobbyists Coup d'État of New York Government Goes Unreported *
Other Scams to Rip Off the CFB The Board of Elections is the Headquarters of the Organize Crime Party Bosses
After Losing the State Senate, Weprin Parkside FK Up Again With Fidler
Parkside Got $2.2 Million from the Democratic State Senate Committee
The
rumor floating through Democratic circles during the Weprin disaster
were about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee steping in
to take control of Assemblyman DavidWeprin's
floundering campaign from the Parkside Group. Everyone involved
denied it, and the DCCC would legally only be allowed to work in
coordination with Weprin's campaign, but there's no denying the
Democrat's half-million-dollar ad buy has also garnered it a stronger
role in the Ninth Congressional District race. "Everyone has just
been alarmed at how badly things have gone," one leading Dem said.
It's not unusual for the DCCC to jump heavily into a special election
- but in a 3-to-1 Democratic district, Weprin wasn't supposed to
need it. "There's so much more to lose here than a single
congressional seat," said one Democratic strategist. * Both Weprin and the DCCC deny rumors
that the Parkside Group has been squeezed out of running the
assemblyman’s campaign as he appears to be foundering against Bob
Turner.* How the Media, Pols and DA's Protect Parkside and Ignore Injustice (True News) * NY's Politicals Consultant Monopoly Parkside Consultants Lobbyist Can't Lose When They Lose Pathetically (True News)
How the Media, Pols and DA's Protect Parkside and Ignore Injustice
Why was John Kennedy O'Hara convicted for illegal voting
by Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes for running for office out of his
girlfriend's residence. While Evan Stavisky gets away with being
registered in Queens while he lives with his wife in Rockland County?
Lawyer O'Hara lost his law license which destroyed his life, while
Stavisky makes millions with an incompetent politically connected
consultant company? Why does the press ignore this outrageous legal
injustice? They don't care and they are too dumb to understand.
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True News Wags City and State
A Crack in the Journalism Blue Wall of Silence to Protect Parkside Lobbyists and Consultants and their Residency Problem
Last Thursday True News reported that Parkside Evan Stravisky was a district leader in Queens while his wife is the Democratic leader from Rockland County. Today's City and State reports the same NY's Politicals Consultant Monopoly True News has been writing about that arrangement for the past year without a single other publication or reporter picking that up until today. What city and state left out and was it True News is that the Queens Democratic Party protect Parkside. Why else would Rory Lancman who is running for congress hire them after they failed so badly in the Weprin campaign in the same district. Why would the DSCC hire them again after they were the consultants that ran the 2010 campaign where they lost their majority.
A Strategic Living Arrangement For Top Democratic Strategist(City and State). The problem with the C&S piece was that it did not examine how their political connections to the Queens Democratic Party keeps Parksides which has lost many high profile elections (Weprin, Democratic State Senate majority) not only alive but making millions.
A Strategic Living Arrangement For Top Democratic Strategist(City and State). The problem with the C&S piece was that it did not examine how their political connections to the Queens Democratic Party keeps Parksides which has lost many high profile elections (Weprin, Democratic State Senate majority) not only alive but making millions. NY's Politicals Consultant Monopoly(True News)
Mclaughlin Helped Create Parkside, Many of the Groups That Brian Was Convicted for Ripping Off Worked for Parkside
Evan is a district leader in 26th Assembly District in Queens. Before the slush fund scandal broke Parkside was paid a total of $1.7 million by more than 40 clients last year, many of them nonprofit receiving member items from the city council.In 2005 in a NYT article Dick Dadey executive director of Citizens Union expressed concern about what he called "a growing problem" of council members being lobbied by firms that serve as political consultants to many of them. * A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney * Two Democratic state senators who may get drawn into the same district share Parkside Group as consultants. [Liz Benjamin]
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The Death of the Party Machine?
The City Source Scandal Led to NYC Public Campaign Fiance System Lobbyists Consultants and Their Progressive Friends Gamed the System with the Help of Supreme Court's Citizen United Decision
Beyond the Campaign finance law
Now everyone is spending money to elect council members through PAC and even spending money in the race for speaker. Because this type of competition for Speaker has never happen before their are no rules recording what is being spent with the CFB or the State Board of Elections
Organize Crime Politics and Lobbying: Make Money From Government or Connections to Government
Parkside was very deeply involved in the city council slush fund scandal. Stavisky group was paid a total of $1.7 million by more than 40 clients in 2005, nonprofit receiving member items from the city council. In 2005 in a NYT article Dick Dadey executive director of Citizens Union expressed concern about what he called "a growing problem" of council members being lobbied by firms that serve as political consultants to many of them.
The 2005 Parkside Slush Fund Coup d'état of NYC's Government
Parkside Group, carved out a dual role in New York politics: as lobbyist for nonprofit groups seeking city money and as a political consultant to a dozen council members, including the speaker and the Finance Committee chairman, who have a major hand in approving budget requests from those same groups. Miller who became so close to Parkside after it helped him win his speaker post asked one of Parkside partners to help him hire a chief of staff. Did Parkside Get Funds from Millers Slush Fund? In 2004, Miller launched his ill-fated drive to become mayor right from Parkside's offices. Lobbyists' Role in Council Slush Fund Scandal Probed (City Sun 2008) There was an ethics bill floated to stop Parkside and other consultants who lobby, but was never passed by the council. A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney
The Parkside Monopoly
Political Goodfellas Royals
In this monopoly
consultants work with each other at the same time they are oppose them in other
races. Some consultants help other consultant’s
candidates often at the expense of their own clients. Two Consultant Lobbyists
the Advance Group and the Parkside Group were involved in every
competitive council race and even some that did not have races through
Independent Expenditure PACs they control. These IE PACS have muscled their way
in to having seats at the table along the Democratic Party bosses that will
pick the next council speaker. The big 8 along with the special
interests whose millions fund PACs, have sabotage the whole idea of local
representation and local elections. The pols are more loyal to the centralized
campaign consultants and their money backers, the new ruling class, than they
are to the voters in their districts. Lobbyists Extortion
What Happens When Lobbbyists Who Ran PACS And Broke the Law With the Candidate Knowledge Ask the Councilmembers for Help With Support for Government Contracts?
Main Stream Media Ignores Advance Corruption Story Already Published In CrainsNY and True News
Who Was the Political Operative Running Anti Gay PAC?
Fox5 Has the Advance Group Debating Horse Carriages
Daily News - The Advance Group is providing unpaid consultants to Mark-Viverito’s City Council leadership bid, the firm said.
Queens Tribune Endorsed Parkside's Weprin's Speaker's Guy
NYT said A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens. True News said it was much more than the court that was fueling that political machine.
Newspaper gives vote of approval to paying politicalcandidates (New York World) A New York World review of campaign finance records and
endorsements found that of the 15 candidates who purchased services from
Multi-Media Advertising in competitive races for amounts exceeding $1,000, 11
also received a public endorsement from the Tribune in that race.
Parkside Poorly Ran the Jobs4NY Supper PAC
Parkside Ran the Jobs4NY Campaign Which Tied to Buy the City Council Member by Member. At that same time, it had spent $4.4 million, with about $4.2 million of
that going to the influential Midtown-based lobbying and consulting
firm Parkside Group.* The role of Jobs for New York in Council races still resonates (if you notice) * The Parkside Monopoly * The Queens Tribune endorsed Queens Councilman Mark Weprin for speaker.* Council Watch: Win or Lose, Consultants Win (City and State)
More on Nussbaum and the Queens Tribune
How Does Nussbaum Get Away Without Being A Registered Lobbyists for the RKO Keith?
They work in campaigns and are lobbyist to the same elected officials they help elect or reelect. The papers operate as the house organ for the Democratic party to controling who becomes gets elected or becomes a judge in Queens county. The judges in turn send the legal ads worth tens of thousands dollars to the local papers.* FOR MENG CONSULTANT NUSSBAUM, A HISTORY OF VOTE-SPLITTING(True News) NUSSBAUM...should have gone to jail back in the Manes days when he was caught red handed in ...wasn't it a Time Warner bribery scandal? And this is the man who is "representing" the RKO Keith's owner de jour...Patrick Thompson. . . * True News: True News: Nussbaum Unplugged A New Organized ... * True News: The Queens Chronicle Asks Why is A Sex Sex Trafficker ...
Parkside Poorly Ran the Jobs4NY Supper PAC
More on Nussbaum and the Queens Tribune
They work in campaigns and are lobbyist to the same elected officials they help elect or reelect. The papers operate as the house organ for the Democratic party to controling who becomes gets elected or becomes a judge in Queens county. The judges in turn send the legal ads worth tens of thousands dollars to the local papers.* FOR MENG CONSULTANT NUSSBAUM, A HISTORY OF VOTE-SPLITTING(True News) NUSSBAUM...should have gone to jail back in the Manes days when he was caught red handed in ...wasn't it a Time Warner bribery scandal? And this is the man who is "representing" the RKO Keith's owner de jour...Patrick Thompson. . . * True News: True News: Nussbaum Unplugged A New Organized ... * True News: The Queens Chronicle Asks Why is A Sex Sex Trafficker ...
The Parkside Monopoly
New York Party Bosses Can't Deliver the Vote Anymore
Permanent Bosses Broken Parties
Today both the Daily News and City and State both have done stories crediting the Working Families Party with winning the Mayoral election. What both papers failed to talk about is the disconnect of the city's Democrats and Republicans party bosses from the voters in their own parties. In other words they can no long deliver the vote. More importantly they represent only themselves and a few close criminal co-conspirators in dysfunctional parties that have cut off the public they claim to represent. The Queens Boss supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the Queens side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary, but the voters in their party did.
Party Bosses and Ballot Lines For Sale
Former Bronx Republican Party leader Jay Savino and Queens GOP Vice Chair Vincent Tabone wait for their used
to selling their party line to Bloomberg tried to sell their party this
year to Malcolm Smith. The Queens party leaders even lost control of who runs the Board of Elections. It very strange that the media is doing story of Bill
Lipton's WFP big win and not talking about who the losers are. What the
newspaper should be looking into is not only the corruption connected
to these party leaders, but how few people participate in party
elections and picking who leads party bosses. Why are the newspapers and
the city's permanent
government, led by the partnership protecting the party leaders? The
cluelessness of their Quinn endorsement shows they are as disconnected
from the voters as the party bosses are. The permanent government has
allowe a political and election system where only cleaver activists from
the WFP know how to win in. And a media that covers the horse race
rather the getting to the realities of the real issues that effect New
Yorkers. The Working Families Party's long game is paying off(NYDN) * Last Look: Bill Lipton (City and State)
Robert Kennedy Last NY Pol That Tried to Reform the Party Bosses
Incumbent Protection
Party Leaders
Elected officials have taken over the party positions with the sole purpose of centralizing power and using it resources to help them get reelected. The party has no agenda or issue it pushes for. Most of the people in party positions have never beenchallenged. It function more like the old soviet union' Communist Party, then a democratic institution. It is even allow according to the U.S. Supreme Court to use politics to pick judges. Lopez Torres v. NYS Bd of Elections
Dem ldr AM Heastie lining up w/ his pal, George Gresham & 1199, instead of long-time ally, Qns Dems?
New York Party Bosses Can't Deliver the Vote Anymore
Permanent Bosses Broken Parties
Today both the Daily News and City and State both have done stories crediting the Working Families Party with winning the Mayoral election. What both papers failed to talk about is the disconnect of the city's Democrats and Republicans party bosses from the voters in their own parties. In other words they can no long deliver the vote. More importantly they represent only themselves and a few close criminal co-conspirators in dysfunctional parties that have cut off the public they claim to represent. The Queens Boss supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the Queens side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary, but the voters in their party did.
Party Bosses and Ballot Lines For Sale
Robert Kennedy Last NY Pol That Tried to Reform the Party Bosses
Incumbent Protection Party Leaders
Elected officials have taken over the party positions with the sole purpose of centralizing power and using it resources to help them get reelected. The party has no agenda or issue it pushes for. Most of the people in party positions have never beenchallenged. It function more like the old soviet union' Communist Party, then a democratic institution. It is even allow according to the U.S. Supreme Court to use politics to pick judges. Lopez Torres v. NYS Bd of Elections
Breaking Carolyn Ryan Who Has Deep Political Support At the NYT is Out of NYC
The NYT Has Nothing About the Council Speakers Race or the Background Deals Being Cut to Elect the New Speaker
NYT's Dear in Headlight Reporting
New York City Council set to lean further to the left as 21 new members come aboard(NYDN)With a number of young progressives among them, the new members are likely to work with Mayor Bill de Blasio to expand workers’ rights and impose new burdens on businesses. Bloomberg had for years been a conservative counterweight against the 51-member Council.* 'New York Times' charts new course on Washington coverage: Carolyn Ryan(Capital) * Gray Lady’s ‘Israel lobby’ fixation(NYP Ed)
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The New Tammany Hall
The New Machine are the Campaign Consultant Lobbyists
The 8 royal families of New York City include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse.
The
new Tammany Hall is Worse Than the old Tammany Hall The Old delivered services to the communities this new one does not
Advance Group Helping Melissa Mark-Viverito in Speaker’s Race(NYO)
Organized Crime PoliticsThe New Tammany Hall
Operating in Secret Dark Pools A Mob of Campaign Consultants/ Lobbyists Coup d'État of New York Government Goes Unreported *
Sheldon Leffler, Former Councilman, Is Convicted in Campaign Fraud Scheme(NYT)
Sheldon Leffler Hit With $400G Fine
Queens pol Albert Baldeo busted for using straw campaign donors ...
Highest Paid Lobbyist
The top ten lobbyists by compensation were:
Kasirer Consulting ($6,059,486), James F. Capalino & Associates ($3,317,406), Constantinople & Vallone Consulting ($2,507,500), Bolton-St. Johns ($ 2,390,266), Greenberg Traurig ($2,334,294), Manatt, Phelps & Phillips ($2,067,481) Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson ($1,971,509), Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel ($1,889,915), Parkside Group ($1,729,036), and Davidoff Hutcher & Citron ($1,629,390).
The Media Ignores NY's Corrupt Political Parties During the Worse Coverage of A Mayor's Race in History
NYC Party Leaders Hire Elected Officials to Work in Their Criminal Gangs Out of Media Sight . . .
If You Want to Know Why So Many of NY's Elected Officials Wind Up in
Jail, Blame the Crooked Party Bosses Who Put Them in Office
BOE Scanner Vendor Paying Grandson of Queens GOP Leader Payoff for A Pay to Play Contract(True News)
Pay to Play BOE's Lemon Contract
GOP
Queens Leader commissioner voted to approve $90 million to purchase
ES&S scanners that do not work for runoff elections.
Pay to Play BOE's Lemon Contract
GOP
Queens Leader commissioner voted to approve $90 million to purchase
ES&S scanners that do not work for runoff elections.
According
to True News tipster Phil Ragusa has been paid over 50,000 from
ES&S last year in a two month period. True News Has Confirmed
From A Current Top Executive That BOE warehouse employee Phil Ragusa the nephew of the Queens GOP leader is on the payroll of ESS as A Paid Consultant.True News: Why Did NYC BOE Spend $90 Million on Scanners That * Queens GOP Leader Accountant PhilRagusa Loses ... - True News
NY Crime Ridden Political Parties
NY Political Parties for Sale: BallotCorruption
2009 Election Probe Emerges Again(WSJ) Political opponents accused the Working Families Party of running Data
and Field Services as a cut-rate political consultancy for its 2009
candidates, essentially giving those contenders an in-kind campaign
contribution without disclosing it to the public. The party and the
consultancy have said the rates weren't artificially inexpensive.* Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed - NYTimes.com 
* Bronx GOP Boss Jay Savino busted in bribery scheme • Bronx Times * Indy Party chief in jam over wife loan
The wife of the chairman of the state Independence Party solicited
and received a $10,000 business loan from a candidate who got the
party's coveted endorsement days later. (NYP)* The New York Daily News’ Ken Lovett reportsIndependence
Party goes along with GOP scheme to dodge campaign finance laws,
insiders allege New York Independence Party has gotten major cash influx
from state Senate GOP in arrangement questioned by political
insiders.The state Senate GOP committee and REBNY in the last six months
of 2012 donated a combined $464,000 to the Independence Party.
Independence Party, or GOP annex? *Bloomberg's Recent Independence Party Donations* Independence Party Is Really A Cult(True News) * Ray Harding, former head of NY Liberal party, pleads guilty to taking $800K in pension fund scandal Raymond B. Harding Pleads Guilty in Pension Fund Corruption (NYT) *Indictment Over Bloomberg Campaign Funds (NYT) * * Vito Lopez Uses Government Funds to Run His Machine(True News) * A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens (NYT)In 1998 Newfield reported that Frank Bolz III,
chairman of the Queens Democratic Party's law committee, is the
single biggest recipient of assignments from Nahman - collecting
$178,050 for 47 paid guardianship appointments since 1992. Bronx Republican Leader Manhattan
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been investigating the aqueduct deal
all year, as he has the simultaneous $50 million voting machine
contract awarded by the city election board to a company, Election
Systems & Software (ES&S), also represented by Sheinkopf and
Levy. * Brooklyn Boss Seddio Pay to Play Like Kruger and Sampson(True News)The Board of Elections is the Headquarters of the Organize Crime Party Bosses
Daily News to BOE Stop Knocking Off Challengers
The News chides the Board of Elections for “going overboard” in trying to knock candidates off the ballot and argues the State Court of Appeals should reverse the board’s decisions: http://nydn.us/13QAGMG
City Council Report: Meet the New Boss Nydia velazquez
In Queens, City Council candidate Austin Shafran conceded the race to rival Paul Vallone, who got a lot of support from Jobs for New York. [Azi Paybarah] * Advice to Democratic City Council primary winners: instead of education-themed photo-ops and reading to little kids, try visiting local schools (not ones that got As or Bs) and spend a few hours in a classroom with an "average" teacher. [Ben Max]* "How the heck does a man who works as an aide to a city councilman even qualify for one of these coveted, subsidized apartments?" [New York Post] * Headline of the Day: “Astoria City Council candidate claims New Orleans home as primary residence.” * City Congressional Delegation Looks to Expand Its Electoral Influence(NYO)
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Jobs4NY's Parkside Lobbyists for the Media
The New York Newspaper Guild pays the Parkside Group $60,000 a year to lobby for them. It is strange that the major role Parkside plays in state and local elections it never gets written about. Parkside ran Jobs4NY for the real estate industry which spent millions buying future councilmembers. The Newspaper Guild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933 who noticed that unionized printers and truck drivers were making more money than they did. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices.
REBNY | Jobs For New York PAC - The Real Deal * Lobbyist Has a Dual Role at City Hall - New York Times(2005) * True News: A Takeover Of Journalism by Lobbyist and Politicians * A Letter to Garcia: (Michael) Garcia U.S. Attorney | Room Eight
Elected Officials, Reformer, Goo Goos Groups Silent On Party Reform
District Leader Too Old?
Staten Island Democrat Claims He Lost Party Post Because Of His Age(DNAINFO) PORT RICHMOND — A Democrat from Staten Island claims he lost his party post because of his age and has started to rally support for the chairman to resign. Robert Castro, 62, of Port Richmond, said he was asked to step down as North Shore district leader for the Staten Island Democratic Party and was offered a position as the Hispanic Outreach coordinator for the party — but the promised spot never was given to him, the Staten Island Advance first reported.
New York Party Bosses Can't Deliver the Vote Anymore
Permanent Bosses Broken Parties
Today both the Daily News and City and State both have done stories crediting the Working Families Party with winning the Mayoral election. What both papers failed to talk about is the disconnect of the city's Democrats and Republicans party bosses from the voters in their own parties. In other words they can no long deliver the vote. More importantly they represent only themselves and a few close criminal co-conspirators in dysfunctional parties that have cut off the public they claim to represent. The Queens Boss supported Quinn, the Bronx and Brooklyn bosses supported Thompson the Manhattan and Staten Island bosses did not endorse anyone. Over on the Queens side none of the party bosses supported Joe Lhota in the primary, but the voters in their party did.
Party Bosses and Ballot Lines For Sale
Robert Kennedy Last NY Pol That Tried to Reform the Party Bosses
Incumbent Protection Party Leaders
Elected officials have taken over the party positions with the sole purpose of centralizing power and using it resources to help them get reelected. The party has no agenda or issue it pushes for. Most of the people in party positions have never beenchallenged. It function more like the old soviet union' Communist Party, then a democratic institution. It is even allow according to the U.S. Supreme Court to use politics to pick judges. Lopez Torres v. NYS Bd of Elections
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Elected Officials, Reformer, Goo Goos Groups Silent On Party Reform
NYP Left Out that Assembly Wright As NY County Leaders Gets Judges Their Jobs
Assemblyman Keith Wright pushed a court to reinstate his top aide’s driver’s license after she was busted for a 4 a.m. DWI in Harlem last month, where she dropped his name and threatened cops, the Post reports:
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