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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Member item favoritism
“City Council Speaker Christine Quinn awarded some council members more than four times as much discretionary funds as their colleagues, reviving accusations that she is playing favorites. ‘Those who are in favor get more, those who are not get less,’ Council Member Charles said. ‘It should be given on a need basis—the communities that are the neediest, not the councilmen who are the most cooperative with the speaker.'”
Posted in Abuse of power, Assault On Democracy
Chelsea Market -Jamestown Properties
“Supporters of the market expansion have been generous to Ms. Quinn: her campaign has received more than $370,000 in donations from at least 120 people who are board members, or in the immediate family of board members, of the Real Estate Board of New York and Friends of the High Line according to an analysis by The New York Times. Ms. Quinn has described seven of those contributors as bundlers — fund-raisers who solicit money for her campaign — and they have pooled more than $130,000 for her.”
Posted in Backroom Deals, Real Estate