“Ms. Quinn has abandoned the rabble-rousing that first gave her such a high profile, and is now the consummate real estate insider.”

“Christine Quinn has the vote locked up — in New Jersey.  Some of the top benefactors to the City Council speaker’s $4 million 2013 war chest for a presumed mayoral bid are from the other side of the Hudson.”

“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.”

“Christine Quinn and NY-CLASS appear to have struck a deal:  If the founder of NY-CLASS silences the anti-Quinn activists and builds support for her in our community, Quinn will protect his business interests in the City Council.”

“Ms. Quinn, who said she has not made up her mind about it (the Dock Street development), noted that she had championed reforms that eliminated the kinds of contributions she got from Two Trees. Why, then, did she take nine donations last year from owners, employees and family members of the company for $4,950 each, the maximum then permitted?”

“Two Trees accounted for at least $74,250 in donations to the two City Council  members with the most power over the development, Speaker Christine Quinn and Melinad R. Katz,  chairwoman of the Council’s Land Use Committee.”

“The biggest gifts went to Speaker Christine Quinn, who got $34,650, and Councilwoman Melinda Katz, who heads the committee that reviews development and got $29,700. Both are supporters of the project.”

“If Ms. Quinn is going to whip votes in favor of the Dock Street project she ought to have at least a comment on the smoking gun e-mails that have been in the press about the mayoral level manipulations to get the project approved.”

Two Trees accounted for at least $74,250 in donations to the two City Council members with the most power over the development, Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Melinda R. Katz, chairwoman of the Council’s Land Use Committee.