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Posted: 4/24/2016 6:15:43 AM EDT
De Blasio fund-raising probe continues, GOP mainstays believe it's just the beginning
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“The notion of a Democrat takeover of the State Senate lasted for less than a New York minute, and has once again been punctured by scandal,” a Republican source told the Daily News. “For the Senate Democrats, there are storm clouds gathering everywhere you look.”
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“The notion of a Democrat takeover of the State Senate lasted for less than a New York minute, and has once again been punctured by scandal,” a Republican source told the Daily News. “For the Senate Democrats, there are storm clouds gathering everywhere you look.” View Quote I can't speak for New York State, but we WILL have a Democratic President in November and very likely a Democratic Congress AND a new liberal on the SCOTUS. Off to PSA to stock up on lowers and magazines. |
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Can you link your thread to the NYPD bosses corruption thread? I was going to add it, but you beat me
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Vice President Chelsea Clinton will quickly cut through the quagmire ...
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I can't speak for New York State, but we WILL have a Democratic President in November and very likely a Democratic Congress AND a new liberal on the SCOTUS. Off to PSA to stock up on lowers and magazines. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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“The notion of a Democrat takeover of the State Senate lasted for less than a New York minute, and has once again been punctured by scandal,” a Republican source told the Daily News. “For the Senate Democrats, there are storm clouds gathering everywhere you look.” I can't speak for New York State, but we WILL have a Democratic President in November and very likely a Democratic Congress AND a new liberal on the SCOTUS. Off to PSA to stock up on lowers and magazines. |
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Nothing's going to happen to Red Billy. He's a Clinton supporter. Less than a 9 months from now all of his troubles disappear. Hell, he's got ties, through Lynch, into the current DOJ.
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De Blasio fund-raising probe continues, GOP mainstays believe it's just the beginning http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gopers-de-blasio-fund-raising-probe-beginning-article-1.2612460 View Quote Some prior discussion on this from yesterday: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1861272_De_Blasio_and_aides_accused_of__criminal__fundraising_activity.html |
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Like it matters?
It's like bragging it up when some ISIS leader is "drone-ed".....Another pops-up to take his place two seconds later. The only difference is a election is held....Look at Chicago. |
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Quoted: Like it matters? It's like bragging it up when some ISIS leader is "drone-ed".....Another pops-up to take his place two seconds later. The only difference is a election is held....Look at Chicago. View Quote |
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He's worse then Dinkins ever was. True meaning of the word Socialist.
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Those that care know about it already. Those that don't know about it don't want to know.
It will fade away and be remembered as a Republican smear campaign. |
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Quoted: "The notion of a Democrat takeover of the State Senate lasted for less than a New York minute, and has once again been punctured by scandal,” a Republican source told the Daily News. "For the Senate Democrats, there are storm clouds gathering everywhere you look.” View Quote Everyone up there is dirty. |
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http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/the-mayor-is-going-down/
Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help.
The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of “willful and flagrant” violations of campaign-finance laws immediately changes everything. The veneer of business as usual is shredded. Never again can de Blasio wave off questions about the mushrooming investigations of his administration. As revelations pile up day after day, allies will desert him and the Putz will find himself a very lonely man. There is no way to sugarcoat the facts: de Blasio is in trouble. Maybe very big trouble. His City Hall is being depicted as the seat of a criminal enterprise. And so far, he offers nothing resembling a convincing denial. As bad as it is, the election report covering the 2014 state Senate races is just the start. The endgame involves the more lethal issue of whether de Blasio sold government favors to donors. That is what federal prosecutors are looking for, and I believe they will find a mother lode. Yet if the election report were all there is, it would still be a problem. It calls one of the campaign violations a possible felony and refers its findings to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for prosecution. That explains why Vance recently partnered up with US Attorney Preet Bharara in the multipronged probe, effectively doubling the number of prosecutors and investigators. And that gets to the heart of de Blasio’s vulnerability. His 2014 Senate effort wasn’t unique. It is just one example of how he has done business since the day he won the election in 2013. Think of it as de Blasio’s Big Idea. While denouncing income inequality, he was determined to harvest big bucks from unions and private firms that had business before the city, and then to use that money to carry out his “progressive agenda.” He raised as much as $40 million and deposited it in various slush funds he formed, including the Campaign for One New York, which he started before he even took the oath of office. The money would be managed by a small team of insiders. Some were on the city payroll, but most were in favored law firms, public relations and consultant shops. In effect, de Blasio outsourced a permanent political operation to be the vanguard of his administration. The money would come from real-estate developers, yellow-taxi medallion owners, teachers unions and anybody else willing to play ball in hopes the mayor would return the favors. Oh, and one more thing: de Blasio would do much of the fund-raising himself, meeting with donors in large groups or one-on-one. That is exactly the pattern he used in trying to help Democrats take back the state Senate in 2014. “The entire fund-raising and campaign operation was run from City Hall by de Blasio staff in coordination with unions and Campaign for One New York officers and political consultants,” wrote Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement officer of the state Board of Elections. She reports that some of the big checks that found their way into small upstate county political committees contained the words “donation per Mayor.” Even before her findings were released, there were reports of new subpoenas being issued and a grand jury-hearing testimony. That suggests that the probes are well beyond the preliminary stage and that prosecutors are confident crimes have been committed. It is almost impossible to believe that de Blasio will emerge unscathed. Though he is notoriously uninterested in policy details, he has been fully engaged in politics and all the deals and transactions. The mayor’s 3 strikes: City Hall knew about, and offered $16M to undo, nursing home flip De Blasio used ‘slush fund’ to support faulty pre-K programs City Hall backed campaigns with series of checks to ‘dodge’ limits It can be no comfort to him that Bharara, who brought down former Albany kingpins Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, is on the case. If the mayor knows a good defense lawyer, he ought to hire him immediately. My belief, based on what we know so far, is that the money de Blasio raised in large amounts was fungible. It was moved from fund to fund and distributed according to the mayor’s instructions. I also believe many donors didn’t care about the specific issues they ostensibly were contributing to, only that they wanted to please the mayor. One notorious example could be NYCLASS, the group that spent nearly $1?million to defeat de Blasio rival Christine Quinn in the 2013 Democratic primary. Its leaders, Steven Nislick and Wendy Neu, wanted to ban carriage horses, and when de Blasio promised he would after Quinn refused, a barrage of ads against Quinn helped demolish her. Some of the ad money came from odd sources that had no direct interest in the horses, only in de Blasio’s success. But even as mayor he has been unable to shut down the horse-carriage industry — despite extraordinary efforts that included a proposal to spend $25 million in taxpayer money to put the horses in Central Park. During negotiations, Nislick and Neu said they met with de Blasio and approved his proposal. And don’t forget the huge raise the mayor approved for the City Council while its members considered his plan. The access of NYCLASS, which received a subpoena, is the kind that money buys. It becomes illegal when there is a quid pro quo. If de Blasio’s operation has committed crimes, New York is on the verge of a crisis unique in modern times. The largest corruption scandal to rock City Hall in our era occurred in Ed Koch’s third term, which began in 1986. It, too, had many tentacles, from the old Board of Estimate to the Parking Violations Bureau to real-estate deals and patronage. Queens Borough President Donald Manes committed suicide, political bosses like Stanley Friedman went to prison and a tarnished Bess Myerson won acquittal after a sensational trial. Yet Koch was never charged or implicated in any crime and went on to finish the term with solid accomplishments, though he did lose the next election. The current mayor should be so lucky. View Quote |
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Hillary is going to be perp-walked out of her office any day now. https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffollowingtherules.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F04%2F3fe06ce4_skeleton-at-keyboard.jpeg&f=1 View Quote FPNI |
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Fixed it, upstate doesn't deserve what NYC votes for but we get fucked every election. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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He's a piece of crap, but NYC gets what NYC deserves. Fixed it, upstate doesn't deserve what NYC votes for but we get fucked every election. You are right, The thing that bothers me the most is that most of the NYC voters who voted this POS & all the other POS commies into power are not even New Yorker's, NYC is populated by FSA, foreigners from the third world & hipster types from middle America. My family & Myself own a few Upscale rental properties in BKLYN. I don't think even one tenant is NY born & raised, most of them Middle America suburban raised Commie hippy scum. NY used to be populated by Democrats, But true Liberal "Want to help people Democrats" Like Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for example, Not the Commie Scum that call themselves Democrats like Clinton/Deblosio/Cuomo/Obama & the rest of them. JFK must be rolling in his grave. |
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NYC has been corrupt since its founding. Its in the DNA there. No changing it and they are all so whacked out they don't even realize they are. The statements on "New York values" is 100% true.
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I am no fan, and he was never getting re-elected, but this seems like a victimless crime in the cesspool that is NY politic.
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He is not even a player . When they arrest Bloomturd or Clinton then I will be happier.
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Please let Preet Bharara get Cuomo. View Quote This. Apparently after "clearing" him in January (big let down ) he has since reported that the investigation is still ongoing. http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/83127/Preet-Bharara-says-de-Blasio-Cuomo-should-stay-tuned |
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This. Apparently after "clearing" him in January (big let down ) he has since reported that the investigation is still ongoing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Please let Preet Bharara get Cuomo. This. Apparently after "clearing" him in January (big let down ) he has since reported that the investigation is still ongoing. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/preet-bharara-de-blasio-cuomo-stay-tuned-article-1.2598678 |
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Leftists don't hold their own to the same standard as the rest of the world. It doesn't matter if he is a criminal.
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It's not only NYC. In 2010, US Senator Chuck Schumer won re-election by taking 59 of 62 counties in New York State. He's standing for re-election in November and hopefully upstaters don't vote for him as they've done in the past. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/NYSen10Counties.png New York State also loved themselves some Hillary Clinton as well when in 2006 when she ran for re-election to the US Senate taking 58 out 62 counties statewide. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/NYSen06Counties.png View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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He's a piece of crap, but NYC gets what NYC deserves. Fixed it, upstate doesn't deserve what NYC votes for but we get fucked every election. It's not only NYC. In 2010, US Senator Chuck Schumer won re-election by taking 59 of 62 counties in New York State. He's standing for re-election in November and hopefully upstaters don't vote for him as they've done in the past. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/NYSen10Counties.png New York State also loved themselves some Hillary Clinton as well when in 2006 when she ran for re-election to the US Senate taking 58 out 62 counties statewide. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/NYSen06Counties.png When they run basically unopposed this is what happens. I can honestly say I don't know who even ran against them. The reason my short list is narrowing in preparation for retirement. |
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When they run basically unopposed this is what happens. I can honestly say I don't know who even ran against them. The reason my short list is narrowing in preparation for retirement. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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He's a piece of crap, but NYC gets what NYC deserves. Fixed it, upstate doesn't deserve what NYC votes for but we get fucked every election. It's not only NYC. In 2010, US Senator Chuck Schumer won re-election by taking 59 of 62 counties in New York State. He's standing for re-election in November and hopefully upstaters don't vote for him as they've done in the past. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/NYSen10Counties.png New York State also loved themselves some Hillary Clinton as well when in 2006 when she ran for re-election to the US Senate taking 58 out 62 counties statewide. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/NYSen06Counties.png When they run basically unopposed this is what happens. I can honestly say I don't know who even ran against them. The reason my short list is narrowing in preparation for retirement. The New York State Republican Party has a power sharing agreement with the Democrats but here's no excuse for the voters to pull the lever for the likes of Schumer and Clinton. It's all about being on the receiving end of the pork the likes of Schumer and Clinton deliver. The first time she ran in 2000, Hillary Clinton originally won the state by taking only a handful of high population counties . Then she solidified her popularity in the rest by means of pork and in 2006 took 58 out of 62 counties statewide. Hillary 2000 election results vs Rick Lazio. |
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I can't speak for New York State, but we WILL have a Democratic President in November and very likely a Democratic Congress AND a new liberal on the SCOTUS. Off to PSA to stock up on lowers and magazines. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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“The notion of a Democrat takeover of the State Senate lasted for less than a New York minute, and has once again been punctured by scandal,” a Republican source told the Daily News. “For the Senate Democrats, there are storm clouds gathering everywhere you look.” I can't speak for New York State, but we WILL have a Democratic President in November and very likely a Democratic Congress AND a new liberal on the SCOTUS. Off to PSA to stock up on lowers and magazines. |
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He's a piece of crap, but NY gets what NY deserves. View Quote This is true. My wife is from long island. I swear EVERYONE up there in some way scams or cheats the system. The government and all their oppressive taxes, regulations and laws has created a culture where everyone is working some kind of scam no matter how small. Working under the table, cheating on taxes, getting favors from connected people, stealing cable, running a book, bringing untaxed smokes into the state when they rravel. I could go on and on. I really believe it's part of the culture up there. At the end of the day it's no surprise that the shit bag they elected as mayor would also be running some scam of his own. |
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This is not a big deal....it is just the way things are in NYC. Similar to the corruption and greed in Detroit since Coleman Young, going back about 50 years.
Accepted norms are.....well, normal. |
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LOL
At you who think he will do time. Hillary will be right behind him on the prison bus. |
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4.5 million registered voters in 2013
24% actually voted Red Bill got 75% about 750k. 8.5 million people in NYC in 2013. That's fucked up |
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a corrupt nyc democrat go to jail???? LMFAO bitches !!!!! http://media.salon.com/2010/07/how_charlie_rangel_can_survive.jpg View Quote Lets hope Office Cardillo is waiting for him on the other side with his nightstick! 1972 Harlem Mosque Murder of Police Officer Cardillo |
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