The 2% Vote
No Mandate You read it in True News Before the Times The City's divided Democratic Party leaders can't elect citywide candidates. It was the power of the paid operation of the WFP and voters turn off by the entire election system who stayed home that won the day. It is shocking that in a Democrat runoff Liu received 127,173 or just 4% of the registered Democrats in the city (3,177,740). De Blasio did a little better with 138, 736, he got 4.4% of the city's democratic voters. Just 2.7% of all the city's registered voters in the city voted (4,657,516) WFP: Return to Tammany Hall Power (True News) September 30, 2009 City of 8 Million Was a Ghost Town at the Polls (Sam Roberts, NYT October 6, 2009) A closer look at the data is apt to only deepen the public’s appreciation of how the two winning candidates — Bill deBlasio for public advocate and John C. Liu for comptroller — achieved something less than a mandate from the city’s populace. They won with the votes of less than 2 percent of all New Yorkers
The Times and Roberts Blog Bias Not only did the NYT fail to give credit to the True News Blog (They never do, they don't even list True News on their list of city bloggers) but they failed to follow up the consultant lobbyist and multi state organize crime by well know democratic fund raisers and Hedge fund owners to rub the pension funds of New York and several other states. The NYT also failed to look at the cancer in New York Elections the lobbyist consultants, like Morris
Modern Political Organize Crime The pleas could have implications for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson since Meyer admitted he caved to political pressure to approve investments in that state as well as New York Harding's Reward Says He Got 800,000 Reward for Giving Hevesi the Liberal Party EndorsementHarding's confession on how the pension deals when down during his guilty plea yesterday is a look into how modern campaign consultants and party leaders rip off the government in ways that resemble interlocking corporations designed to hid their participation than boss tweed simple getting a contract to provide a service. It shows that modern campaign fiances rules are worthless to stop how consultants lobbyist Morris and party leader like Harding operates in 2009
"During this period, I also developed a relationship with Alan Hevesi's political adviser, Hank Morris," Mr. Harding said in court. Mr. Morris, the statement continues, brought Mr. Harding in as placement agent, or an intermediary between the pension fund and investment firms seeking pension money, "so that I could receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to reward me for my political support of Alan Hevesi." Ray Harding, iplea statements *** In a court filing, Cuomo's office said one hedge fund manager involved in the scheme was asked to pass a message from Morris when Meyer got cold feet about their fee arrangement. "Tell that little peanut of a man that I can take the business away as easily as I provided it," Morris said, according to authorities. Selling Ballot LinesThe Liberal Party made the most of its tiny membership, usually less than 1 percent of all registered voters, and the lure of its ballot line True News we had it right about the election law and Ballot Control Organized Crime committed by party leaders months ago Tammany’s Ballot Control Again and Again , TAmmany Hall Board of Elections Control Goes On and On,Political PARTIES 4 SALE, Organized Crime Politics *** More on Tammany’s Control of the City’s Elections *** In Defense of Political Hardball in a
Aldus Saul Meyers Pleas Guilty Also Meyer admitted to ginning up a favorable report on a $750 million pension-fund investment after Loglisci threatened to quash a separate deal with Meyer's firm, Aldus Equity. The pension-fund adviser said that he sought out Morris for his political connections and paid the Democratic political guru $300,000 in exchange for a deal to manage the state retirement fund.
The New Mexico/New York City ConnectionsStarts with Aldas Who is Deborah Gallegos?
Gallegos moved to New York from a less high-profile post as deputy state investment officer for the New Mexico State Investment Council, where she oversaw a $1 billion private equity program and worked with the governor on investing $11.8 billion in assets
Deborah Gallegos was the Chief Investment Officer for the Comptroller of the City of New York during 2005
Why was Gallegos name New York City's Chief Investment Officer? Gallegos was only deputy investment manager for a 11 billion dollare pension fund. Why was she put in charge of New Yorks 100 million dollar pension fund? Why did she leave after only a few months?
While iGallegos was in charge of New York City Pension Fund .her former advisor in the New Mexico pension fund Aldus got began providing investment services to the City Pension Funds. In 2005, the Police Pension Fund hired Aldus as a private equity consultant for investments in Funds smaller than $750 million. The Fire Pension Fund separately approved a $40 million investment commitment with Aldus in 2005, and another $15 million in 2008..
Aldus also serves as an adviser to retirement systems managing the pension assets of government workers in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and at the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension, where SEC investigators have been seeking documents related to the company.
Cuomo Attacks State Comptroller DiNapoliAG Andrew Cuomo will unveil a bill this week calling for a 13-member board to replace the state comptroller's sole trustee control over the pension fun*** Cuomotook a perceived shot at state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, saying abuse at the pension fund "continues today."
Wise Guys Have Agenda Last night on NY1 Call McCall was taking about Harding and the pension scandal. His solution was to finish the investigation and get all the problems behind us. If I took 50,000 from the NYC Comptroller like McCall for the same things that got Morris and Harding in trouble I want to end the investigation also McCall's linked to pension fund mess,McCall's Company Is Subpoenaed in Pension Inquiry - City Room Blog At NY1 objective journalism does not run very deep if at all.
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