“Local Law 34 lowered the maximum political contributions from those doing business with the city to $400. But due to a loophole, officeholders like Quinn could hold on to the maximum $4,950 donations from those doing business with the city. . . This new law was designed to hinder, if not end, the age-old, transactional ‘pay-to-play’ politics that had favored the few for so long at the expense of the many.  Why would the Council allow incumbents to keep money received under limits it judged to be more than 10 times too high, potentially undermining this good- government reform?”