Author Archives: donny

Posted on June 20, 2011 by donny

Posted in Assault On Democracy, Separation of powers |

Posted on June 20, 2011 by donny

Posted in Assault On Democracy, Separation of powers |

Chelsea Market -Jamestown Properties

Posted on June 19, 2011 by donny

“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 |

Real estate or real corruption poster

Posted on June 13, 2011 by donny

Posted in Backroom Deals, Real Estate |

Quinn Betrays Queers photo

Posted on June 13, 2011 by donny

Posted in LGBT, Obstructs Human Rights |

Quinn blocks 600 hours

Posted on June 12, 2011 by donny

“NY1 obtained a copy of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s 2011 schedule, of which 600 hours are blacked out . . .  ‘It seems that there might have been names, names of staff members for example, public employees, other people that Ms. Quinn might have met that did involve the performance of her duties,’ said Robert Freeman of the State Committee on Open Government. ‘It would be difficult to understand why those names would be redacted.'”

Posted in Backroom Deals, Dirty Politics |

Quinn: rubber stamp

Posted on June 10, 2011 by donny

“At a time when progressive leadership was needed to curb a business-minded mayor’s ambitions, her opponents will argue, Christine Quinn was instead a rubber stamp.”

Posted in Assault On Democracy, Separation of powers |

Video – living wage press conference

Posted on May 20, 2011 by donny

Posted in Abuse of power, Assault On Democracy |

Term limits – slush fund; 4 years to forget

Posted on May 5, 2011 by donny

When Christine Quinn admitted that her office allocated millions of dollars to fake charities in the city budget and doled these funds out in exchange for political favors, the scandal destroyed her chances of being elected Mayor in ’09.  She therefore strong-armed the City Council into extending term limits, which would give her four years to attempt to repair her reputation before running for Mayor in 2013.

 

Posted in Above two embedded videos, Overturned Term Limits |

Volunteer collected 55 singatures

Posted on April 21, 2011 by donny

“Even during the busy weekdays running up to the budget agreement, 24 presumably overworked staffers found the time to volunteer for Quinn. . . On a single workday, June 10, one young aide who lives in Brooklyn, Danielle Castaldi-Micca, managed to bop all around the district, obtaining 55 signatures for the speaker.”

Posted in Campaign Corruption, Using City Resources |