Former* Hamill: De Blasio should stay in Brooklyn(NYDN) * THE GIULIANI DEPUTY WHO HELPED DE BLASIO — Capital’s Dana Rubinstein: "De
Blasio regularly criticizes the Giuliani legacy, and has attacked Lhota
for his role in it. But Mastro and his colleagues at Gibson Dunn &
Crutcher represented de Blasio on two high-profile lawsuits that helped
vault his candidacy forward during the competitive Democratic primary.” http://goo.gl/U2wnJn * Page Six’s Richard Johnson: "Bill de Blasio is considering hiring teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten as the next NYC schools chancellor, sources tell me." * "Dark money" as of 11/2: $387K favoring Lhota, $1.3M favoring de Blasio. * "I'm doing well. I'm very optimistic about today." -
Perfect Storm: Lhota A Bad Fit, GOP Tea Party and Only 30%-40% Were Born or Lived Here in the Bad 80's
De Blasio Camp Embraces Uber App–Even as Candidate Voices Concerns(NYP) Bill de Blasio isn’t sold on the benefits of hailing cabs via e-hail phone apps like Uber–but that hasn’t stopped his campaign from spending more than $1,000 dollars ferrying staffers using the service.
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Gambling
What A Low Turn Out Could Do to Gambling
Pollsters and political consultants believe that low turnout as a result of the uncompetitive mayor’s race could affect the fate of casino expansion in New York, which is on the ballot as a constitutional amendment, the New York Post reports * The New York Gaming Commission voted to adopt regulations prohibiting Western New York racinos from advertising themselves as casinos, consistent with a deal Gov. Andrew Cuomo struck with the Seneca Indian Nations, the Times Union writes:
CUOMO CALLS — Governor appears in last-minute robocall urging voters to support casinos: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he's “linked” to the fate of Proposal One, which would allow up to seven casinos
in upstate New York, but until now hasn't done much to publicly promote it. New York Jobs Now,
a PAC fueled by casinos and labor unions, confirmed it paid for a
robocall featuring the governor, but declined to elaborate, as did aides
to Cuomo. But voters in the Capital Region, Binghamton and on Long
Island reported receiving the Cuomo call on Monday. As Michael Gormley points out, “Governors are prohibited from using public money to advocate for a ballot proposition.”Capital has obtained audio of the call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8a0f4pJG9k
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New Manhattan BP Wins Without the Big 8
Gail Brewer Wins Without the News Tammany Hall
Organized Crime Politics:
The New Tammany Hall
Eight campaign consultants all but one are also lobbyists, have monopolized NYC elections system that only the Justice Department using the Sherman Antitrust Act can bust. These consultants run every important campaign in New York. The big 8 include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies (join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse. Like the Apalachin mobsters the consultants/lobbyist has divided up New York to control the government and rake in corrupt lobbying dollars. Also like the mobsters the big 8 may even be about the law.
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Katz Pays Off the Consultants
Katz gets piggish (NYDN ED)
Taking public money for a blowout election is just wrong. Other politicians who won primaries and then moved on to walk-over
general election contests have spurned or returned their matching funds.
They include: the next public advocate and controller, Letitia James
and Scott Stringer and the future borough presidents of the Bronx,
Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island (Ruben Diaz, Gale Brewer, Eric
Adams and Jimmy Oddo), as well as Bronx Councilman Jimmy Vacca and
Council newcomers Corey Johnson and Helen Rosenthal from Manhattan.
The NYP Endorses Lhota for Mayor True to Its Beliefs, Unlike the Daily News
The Post endorses Lhota for New York City mayor, saying Lhota will build upon the reforms of the past two decades, despite the fact that he’s run a lackluster campaign
Joe Lhota for New York City mayor (NYP Ed) While Joe Lhota seeks to build upon the key reforms of the past two
decades, Bill de Blasio campaigns on a platform that calls into question
almost every stride forward the city has taken since the 1970s. We recognize the Lhota campaign has done a poor job
of presenting these differences in a way that resonates with voters.
But in a Democratic city, any Republican has his work cut out for him.
And de Blasio has other advantages, including a friendly press that
allows a man who honeymooned in Cuba and still speaks warmly of the
Sandinistas to paint Lhota, a moderate Republican, as an extremist for
speaking to one Tea Party group on Staten Island.* De Blasio visited Communist USSR in college(NYP)
True News PM De Blasio, Far Ahead in Polls, Talks of Mandate as Lhota Still Hopes for Upset(NYT)
*The NYT Reviews Its Election Endorsements Election Day Choices(NYT)
Wow
* INSIDE THE ADMINISTRATION — Crains’ Andrew Hawkins: Reportedly advising on transition: Harold Ickes, Peter Madonia, John Banks; ‘top job in the administration’ for Emma Wolfe and Dominic Williams; ‘possible deputy mayor’ Christopher Ward; possible head of Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development Michelle de la Uz and Shola Olatoye. * GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR DE BLASIO — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer: “We are about to elect the most progressive mayor this country has ever seen.”* When a NYC GOP candidate for mayor got only 4%! New York Today: A Losing Tradition *New Yorker’s John Casidy: “[A] de Blasio mayoralty will be widely viewed as a test case for liberal reformers everywhere.”
The NYP and Daily News Agree On Issues But Not Mayoral Candidate - Uneasy vs Unapologetically
NYP Agrees with the Daily News On Crime Supports Lhota
Daily News Agrees with the NYP On Crime Supports de Blasio
His rethinking must start with security.After two decades of smart, aggressive policing, New York is by far
America’s safest large city. Its transformation from charnel house of
2,200 murders a year to fewer than 400 — and its successful offensive
against terrorism — have been the indispensable factors for a remarkable
rebirth. De Blasio has played with fire. And he displayed a frightening
ideological bent in responding to the appeals court that on Thursday
discredited a federal judge’s holding that the program was
unconstitutional. BILL
DE BLASIO FOR MAYOR: He will best serve the vast interests of New
Yorkers but will need to trade ideology for pragmatism(NYDN Ed)NYP Agrees with the Daily News On Education Supports Lhota
De Blasio has put a bull’s-eye on charters, claiming in his divisive way that they are “wealthy” and represent only 5 percent of the school system. But make no mistake: Charters serve some of the least well off kids in this city* De Blasio’s education agenda is full of hot air(NYP Ed)
To name two, de Blasio is no fan of charter schools and rules out closing failing schools to replace them with better institutions. Shortsightedly, he has viewed both proven successes as somehow damaging to kids who have not specifically benefited. Here, too, de Blasio must be a fast learner.
NYP Agrees with the Daily News On Education Supports Lhota
Taxes: Few citizens pay more than New Yorkers. Every day this city’s hostility to business and achievement is leading more and more of our most successful people to take up residence elsewhere. Bill de Blasio complains about income inequality. Let’s be clear: Nothing squeezes a middle class more sharply than the high-tax, high-regulation, high-spending city de Blasio advocates.
Daily News Agrees with the NYP On Taxes Supports de Blasio
Meanwhile, his third pillar — universal all-day prekindergarten financed by a tax on the wealthy — is dead because Gov. Cuomo turned thumbs down on Albany’s needed approval. The appeal of de Blasio’s campaign was strong. After zeroing in on improving the economic well-being of working- and middle-class New Yorkers, he will arrive in City Hall with a mandate to ease the punishing cost of living and to foster creation of well-paying, full-time private-sector jobs.
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Media Failure
What Happens to Competitive Elections With the Death of the NYC GOP?
The real reason NYC is not a democracy is the media has failed to inform the voters of NY - the Quinn Disconnect tells it all
Republican mayoral candidates, clockwise from top left: Louis J. Lefkowitz, Roy M. Goodman, Joseph J. Lhota and John Marchi.
The Cowards At the Daily News Had Enough Guts to Endorse Vance for DA Strongly
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Another powerful
@NYDNopinions edit: "@NYDailyNews strongly endorses Cy Vance for a second term as@ManhattanDA" The Daily News endorses Cy Vance for Manhattan district attorney, noting his felony conviction rate, which is the highest in the city, and the fact that he’s cut the office’s case backlog
Stu Loeser
Newsday’s Dan Janison compares the federal government’s issues with its healthcare.gov website to New York’s own technological mishaps, including electronic voting, the city’s 911 system, and the botched CityTime payroll system: http://bit.ly/1amCq1S
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Silver Moreland Threat
Silver Sends A Message to the Gov, Then Says Nevermind
"We have not contemplated nor are we considering calling for any action regarding the Lieutenant Governor," Whyland said.
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Council Speakers Race
SPEAKER’S RACE — De Blasio Backing Viverito — Post’s Michael Gartland: “De Blasio is lobbying council members through Working Families Party surrogates…Councilman Michael McMahon: ‘if Inez [Dickens] stays in…There will be a split in the black and Latino caucus.’” http://goo.gl/keSCFH
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City Council Races
A rundown of City Council races that feature actual living, breathing, competitive Republican/ 3rd party candidates:
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Campaign 2014
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Organized Crime Politics:
The New Tammany Hall
Operating in Secret Dark Pools A Mob of Campaign Consultants/ Lobbyists Coup d'État of New York Government Goes Unreported
Political Goodfellas
Eight campaign
consultants all but one are also lobbyists, have monopolized NYC elections
system that only the Justice Department using the Sherman Antitrust Act can bust.
These consultants run every important campaign in New York. The campaign monopoly is only part of a
conspiracy that is not only about who gets elected. It is also part of a
second conspiracy to make money off of government as lobbyist or insiders.
There is serious evidence of illegal coordination between the Independent Expenditure PACs and
consultants. The data of big 8 working together is massive. In the
20 competitive races for the city council this year’s these big 8 consultants
helped 98 of the 54 competitive candidates in those races. Consultants were able to
help more candidates in the races by being on more than one side in the same
race. They don't only compete with each other as one would think.
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A Government and Campaign Monopoly That Sabotages Democracy
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Sen. John Sherman Author of the Sherman Antitrust Act
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In this monopoly
consultants work with each other at the same time they are oppose them in other
races. Some consultants help other consultant’s
candidates often at the expense of their own clients. Two Consultant Lobbyists
the Advance Group and the Parkside Group were involved in every
competitive council race and even some that did not have races through
Independent Expenditure PACs they control. These IE PACS have muscled their way
in to having seats at the table along the Democratic Party bosses that will
pick the next council speaker. The big 8 along with the special
interests whose millions fund PACs, have sabotage the whole idea of local
representation and local elections. The pols are more loyal to the centralized
campaign consultants and their money backers, the new ruling class, than they
are to the voters in their districts. The consultants work like Wall Street investors who trade in dark pools beyond the control of regulators. In NY's dark pool campaign consultants/lobbyists,
special interests and elected officials make deals with each other
hidden from public view. To understand the reasons for the
takeover you must also be aware that the business opportunities for consultants
don’t end on primary or election day. In an excellent investigation of the
dangers the newly elected Cuomo would face from lobbyist, Wayne Barrett wrote in the Village
Voice in 2010. that campaign consultant lobbyist "Sheinkopf one of the
worse consultant lobbyist, makes kings so he can then make deals with the kings
he’s made."
The New Apalachin Crime Summit, 56 Years Later
These same big 8
consultants also have the same monopolized control of citywide, state election
and law enforcement elections. There operating model resembles organize crime
after the Apalachin crime meeting. That 1957
meeting included over 100 mobsters including "Joe the Barber," divided
the illegal operations of loan sharking, narcotics trafficking and gambling controlled by the late Albert Anastasia.
The big 8 include: the Advance Group, the Parkside Group/Marathon Strategies
(join at the hip), Berlin Rosen, Mercury Public Affairs, Brandford
Communications, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Hudson TJ and Red Horse. Like the
Apalachin mobsters the consultants/lobbyist has divided up New York to control
the government and rake in corrupt lobbying dollars. Also like the mobsters the
big 8 may even be about the law.
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Nobody Left to Investigate the Consultant Monopoly
Big 8 Consultants Work for Law Enforcement Also
The big 8 mob
were involved in electing every city and state law enforcement official. If
democracy is every going to be restored to New Yorkers the feds must put
council candidates under oath to find out the backroom deals the
consultants/lobbyists and candidates have made with each other during the 2013
election. Berlin Rosen worked for AG Schneiderman. Red Horse works
for Brooklyn DA nominee Ken Thompson. His opponent was represented in the
primary by George Arzt, Advance and Brandford. Manhattan DA Vance was
represented by Red Horse. Queens DA Brown who never had races works with Marc
Guma who worked with Marathon Strategies in the Quinn Campaign. Bronx DA
Johnson has Brandford working for him.
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The Big 8 as Lobbyists Do A Lot of Damage to New Yorkers
Both Mercury and
George Artz have been lobbyists for Hewlett-Packard which was the main
contractor of the city's 911 emergency system that crashes a lot. The city 911
system is now being sued by the parents of 4-year-old Ariel Russo who
claim she died because an ambulance to take the little girl to the hospital was
delayed by a 911 crash. Arzt is also the flack for Excell's One 57 that
got tax breaks from Albany to build a 75-story luxury skyscraper. One57 tax break
is contributing to pushing the middle class our of Manhattan and raising
rents in Brooklyn. Parkside got away with making millions off of the
council's member items and slush fund. The Advance Group according to a series
written by CrainsNY used its control of PAC to be on more than one side in a
race, even working against clients who hired his firm. Berlin Rosen
worked for the same client, Bruce Ratner as indicted Melvin Lowe and convicted
Kruger flack Richard J Lipsky promising affordable housing where none exists today.
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Using PAC the Big 8 Has Gamed New York Democracy, By Controlling Elections
Parkside working
for The Real Estate Board of New York's PAC Jobs4NY worked for and against 35
candidates in the 20 competitive council races. The Advance Group working
through 4 PACs NYCLASS, United for the Future, Citizen Action and Hotel Workers
for A Strong Middle Class worked for 27 of candidates in the 20
competitive council campaigns. Of the 21 candidates supported by Parkside
Jobs4NY 17 were run by the big 8. Another candidate Dickens who had no race is
running for speaker and some Jobs4NY money went to a republican candidate. Of
the 44 council candidates supported by PAC in which Advance worked for or had a
relationship with 34 when to candidates run by the Big 8. Half of the
other 10 went to incumbent candidates who had no races. The big 8 worked for
council candidates who may be running for speaker, who had no races.
Berlin Rosen Daniel Garodnick, Red Horse and Hudson TDG James Vacca, Hudson TG
Mark Weprin. Multi-Media run by newspaper publisher Michael Nussbaum have been
doing printing for the Parkside Group for years in the dark pools because state
election law does not require subcontractors are reported. Red Horse worked alongside
Parkside for DSCC where Melvin Lowe was indicted this week for fake printing
invoices. Red Horse has at least 20 interest group clients. This summer the New
York World reported Hudson TG LLC – offer lobbying services to represent
special interests with the officials they have sometimes helped to get elected.
The only campaign consultant that does not directly lobby is Brandford
Communications. But Brandford's Ernie Lendler did pull a Melvin Lowe when he
gave convicted Brooklyn Boss Norman fake invoices. Lendler did not get
indicted in exchanged for testifying against Norman Background on the Big 8 Consultants as
Lobbyists * CrainsNY on the Advance Groups Double Dipping
(CrainsNY)
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The Big 8 Also Dominated In Citywide, Borowide and Democratic State Races
Comptroller candidate Scott Stringer had several of the Big
8 working for him: Advance Group, George Arzt, Multi-Medi and Marathon
Strategies. Cuomo had Advance, Red
Horse, Marathon Strategies and Marc Guman working for him. Controller DiNapli
had Red Horse working for him. New York Democratic State Senate Committee
employed 4 of the big 8 Parkside Group, Berlin Rosen, Brandford Communications,
Red Horse. Queens BP Katz had Red Horse, George Arzt, Multi-Media and Hudson.
Vallone had Mercury. Brooklyn BP Adams had Red Horse even though he had no
race. Bronx BP Diaz also had no race but had Red Horse, Advance Group and
Brandford. Manhattan BP Lappin had Red Horse and Marathon Strategies; Menin had
George Arzt and Berlin Rosen; Jackson had Advance. The winning Manhattan BP candidate Gail
Brewer had none of the Big Eight working for her. A lesion of their real value?
Tish James had Hudson TG and Red Horse
joined in the runoff. Daniel Squardron Brandford and Berlin. Reshma had Red
Horse
20 Competitive Council Races
Out of 54 Candidate the 8 Consultants Worked for 98 candidates
Consultants 35 Candidates, Parkside PAC 36 Candidates, Advance PACs 27 Candidates
1CD Red Horse, Parkside
PAC (2), Advance PACs HWSMC, CA; 3CD Berlin Rosen, Advance Group and Mercury Public Affairs, Advance PACs UF, CA; 5CD George Artz. Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PAC NYCLASS; 6CD Berlin Rosen,
George Artz, Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 7CD Advance Group and Hudson TD, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; 10CD Advance Group, Advance PAC UF; 11CD Branford Communications, Advance PAC UF; 16CD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF;
19CD Red Muliti, Berlin Mercury, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; 22CD Muli-Media, Parkside PAC(3), Advance PAC UF; 24CD Berlin Rosen, Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PAC UF; 27CD Muli-Media Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PAC UF; 34CD Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3), Advance PACs UF, CA; 35CD Advance Group, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (3); 36CD Red Horse, Belin Rosen, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (4), Advance PAC UF; 37CD Advance Group, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PACs UF, NYCLASS; \38CD Hudson TG, Red Horse, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PACs CA, HWSMC; 46CD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 47CD Berlin Rosen. Advance Group. Hudson TG, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 48CD Advance Group, Mercury Public Affairs. Hudson TG.
Brandford, Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC (4), Advance PACs UF, CA
15 Council Incumbents Had No Race
The
big 8 consultants worked for 7 of the 15 candidates who had no races.
PACs connected to the Advance Group contributed to 9 of the 15
candidates with no races.
4ICD Berlin Rosen; 13ICD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 20ICD
None; 21ICD None; 23ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 25ICD
Muli-Media; 26ICD Hudson TG; 29ICD Hudson TG, Advance PAC UF; 30ICD Berlin Rosen, Advance PAC UF; 32ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 39ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 43CD None; 45ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 49ICD Brandford
Communications, Advance PAC UF; 51ICD None, Advance PAC UF
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16 Blow Out Council Races (11 Incumbents)
The big 8 worked for 8 of the 16 candidates who had blow out elections
2CD None, Advance PAC UF, CA; 8ICD None, Advance PAC NYCLASS; 9ICD Parkside PAC (2), Advance PAC UF; 12CD Parkside PAC, Advance PAC UF; 14ICD Brandford Communications, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC; 17ICD None; 18ICD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 28ICD Berlin Rosen; 31ICD Berlin Rosen, Parkside Jobs4NY PAC, Advance PAC UF; 32CD Red Horse, Advance PAC UF; 33ICD Berlin Rosen, Advance PAC UF; 40ICD None, Advance PAC UF; 41ICD None; 42CD Hudson TG, Advance PAC UF; 44ICD None; 50CD None
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The Tyranny Makers
Public Advocate: Brandford Communications, Berlin Rosen, Red Horse, Hudson TD, Advance HWSMC; Comptroller: Berlin Rosen, George Arzt, Multi-Media, Marathon Strategies; Mayor Berlin Rosen, Marathron Strategies, Marc Guma, SKD Knickerbocker; Brooklyn BP No Race: Red Horse; Bronx BP No Race: Brandford Communciations, Red Horse, Advance Group; Queens BP: Red Horse, Hudson TV, Multi-Media, George Arzt, Mercury Public Affairs; Manhattan BP: Red Horse, Marathon Strategies, Marc Guma, Advance, Berlin Rosen, George Arzt; Brooklyn DA: Red Horse, Advance Group, Bedford Communications, George Arzt
Manhattan DA No Race: Red Horse, Marc Guma
Queens DA: Marc Guma; Bronx DA: Brandford Communications; NYSSC: Parkside Group, Berlin Rosen, Brandford Communications, Red Horse Guma
AG: Berlin Rosen, SKDKickerbocker; NYS Comptroller: Red Horse; NYS Governor: Marc Guma, Marathron Strategies, Red Horse, Advance Group
