tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87003606316496644682024-02-06T21:33:58.166-08:00Christine Quinn Sold OutFollowing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, her long record of corruption, and the NYC Mayor's race in 2013.NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.comBlogger679125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-20297486052977261582013-09-18T22:24:00.000-07:002013-09-21T14:25:31.088-07:00Correcting the Sexism and Homophobia Myths <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn : Sexism, Homophobia, and a Campaign’s Collapse by <a href="https://twitter.com/paulinepark">@paulinepark</a> <a href="http://t.co/5bGPTA7LeZ">http://t.co/5bGPTA7LeZ</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/GayCityNews">@GayCityNews</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/380562462312910848">September 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p><b>Pauline Park</b> authored an editorial analyzing the end of openly lesbian NYC mayoral candidate <b>Christine Quinn</b>'s political career.</p>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-3882337313450989962013-09-10T19:41:00.000-07:002013-09-21T18:43:06.605-07:00Christine Quinn Concedes. C'est fini.<p>The blogger Joe Jervis is reporting that Christine Quinn's political campaign has conceded that she lost in today's Democratic primary election.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>New From JMG: Christine Quinn Concedes: Openly lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has 15.7%... <a href="http://t.co/1SPJXCVdG5">http://t.co/1SPJXCVdG5</a></p>— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/statuses/377618982246678528">September 11, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<br>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-21064174185888586322013-09-10T08:28:00.000-07:002013-09-10T09:09:12.828-07:00VIDEO : Broken Lever Voting Machine - No Paper Ballots - Queens 63rd Election District - NYC Primary Election Day<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Broken Lever Voting Machine - Queens 63rd Election District - No Paper Ballots <a href="http://t.co/m2qMmqBIgP">http://t.co/m2qMmqBIgP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BOENYC">@BOENYC</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/377455233342791682">September 10, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>VIDEO : Broken Lever Voting Machine - Queens 63rd Election District - No Paper Ballots - NYC Primary Election Day</p>
<p>Voting problems with the single lever voting machine for the 63rd Election District in Jackson Heights, Queens. I was detained by a police officer and nearly taken into custody for using my iPhone to take a photograph and video of the broken voting machine.</p>
<p>We were denied paper ballots, as you will hear on the video. They tried to let us use another voting machine, but then we were taken back to the using the broken 63rd ED lever voting machine after it was "reset." </p>
<p>I'm taking a risk by uploading this video, but I feel it is important to document what happened and to register my vote.</p>
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<p>A new blog has been launched, to examine possible corrupt ties between the Democratic Party mayoral primary frontrunner and real estate lobbyists :</p><blockquote><p> <a href="http://bill-de-blasio-sold-out.blogspot.com" title="Bill de Blasio Sold Out" target="_blank">Has Bill de Blasio already sold out</a> ?</p></blockquote>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-44096817072216547732013-09-04T12:00:00.000-07:002013-09-04T12:10:56.353-07:00Christine Quinn, Jennifer Cunningham, Stephen Berger, and Hospital Closings<div class="separator" alt="Jennifer Cunningham and Christine Quinn" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/nyregion/for-speaker-quinn-mayor-race-will-test-alliance-with-lobbyist.html?pagewanted=all" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="284" title="Jennifer Cunningham, left, with Christine Quinn, center." width="400" src="http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/maslow25/jennifer-cunningham-christine-quinn-400_zps91490365.jpg" /></a></div>
<p><b><font size="3" color="#FF0000">How did Stephen Berger get away with closing so many hospitals? The story begins like this .... </font></p></b><p>An excerpt from Chapter 9 of <i><b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/133525827/Roots-of-Betrayal-The-Ethics-of-Christine-Quinn-Copyright-2013-by-Louis-Flores-Uncorrected-Proof-Not-For-Sale-Excerpt" title="Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn" target="_blank">Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</a></b></i>, available now for a free preview on Scribd : </p>
<blockquote><p>The hospital closings called for by the Berger Commission were formulated at a time when only some hospital patients were covered by job-based health insurance, and hospitals were forced to write down the economic costs from treating underinsured and uninsured patients. The Berger Commission, headed by a Wall Street banker, Stephen Berger, was only capable of seeing the provision of full-service hospital care from perspective of profits, losses, and debts, instead of from the perspective of providing people with the human right to healthcare. “We have a history in this state of pumping money into the system and not letting hospitals close even if they should,” Mr. Berger told The New York Times, adding, “You have to right-size the system, you have to shrink it, that is No. 1.” In typical Wall Street fashion of divorcing any moral dilemma from situational ethics, hospital closings were pushed as inevitable, and patients were expected to have to deal with it. This was about a decade before "Obamacare" would extend healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. Back then, Mr. Berger observed overcapacity among hospitals, which had to be cut. However, in the future, Mr. Berger’s draconian cuts would prove to gut healthcare infrastructure leading up to the time when Obamacare would lead to a large influx of newly covered healthcare patients. But even without knowing that healthcare coverage would be expanded within the next decade, back then healthcare advocates knew about the dangers of past outbreaks, pandemics, and unforeseen uses of bioterrorism agents, such as anthrax. There were reasons why it was penny wise and dollar foolish to make drastic cuts to full-service hospital capacity in New York City.</p>
<p>One healthcare union, 1199/S.E.I.U., had to scramble to deal with the fallout over job losses from the impending hospital closings. Jennifer Cunningham, who at that time worked as a spokesperson and political operative for 1199 and would later go on to work for Christine as a political campaign consultant, was more concerned at the time about employee retraining and not about the interruption of patient-centered care. The hit list of hospitals that would be targeted for closure by the Berger Commission came to be known as the Berger Commission Report, and Christine, as chair of the City Council Health Committee, was largely absent from the initial public conversation in 2004 and 2005 around Mr. Berger’s recommendation for hospital closings. Taking her cue from former Speaker Gifford Miller’s precedent of maintaining silence on the controversial West Side Stadium until the project’s outcome was clear, Christine was not visible in the resistance movement to fight the Berger Commission Report’s recommendations until very late in 2006, when the City Council issued its own report just weeks before the Berger Commission Report’s final recommendations would go into effect on January 1, 2007. </p></blockquote>
<p>Read more : <b><i>Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</i></b>, available now for a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/133525827/Roots-of-Betrayal-The-Ethics-of-Christine-Quinn-Copyright-2013-by-Louis-Flores-Uncorrected-Proof-Not-For-Sale-Excerpt" title="Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn" target="_blank">free preview on Scribd</a>.</p>
NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-76025829547646062912013-09-02T19:30:00.000-07:002013-09-02T20:43:12.182-07:00Christine Quinn and Michael Bloomberg File for Divorce<p>For 15 years, voters had to suffer through Christine Quinn's self-interested dealings as she hitched her political wagon to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Speaker Quinn's close working relationship with Mayor Bloomberg is turning off voters from supporting her mayoral campaign. Now that Speaker Quinn is desperate to rescue her political future, she is about to throw Mayor Bloomberg and his legacy under the bus. Her efforts to divorce herself from Mayor Bloomberg may be too little, too late. </p>
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<p>The Guardian reporter <b>Harry Enten</b> tweeted a link to the free Scribd preview of the book, <i><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/133525827/Roots-of-Betrayal-The-Ethics-of-Christine-Quinn-Copyright-2013-by-Louis-Flores-Uncorrected-Proof-Not-For-Sale-Excerpt" title="Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn" target="_blank">Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</a></i>.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Part of reason why I never thought Quinn wud have an easy ride was cause of work done by folks like <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn">@stopchrisquinn</a> <a href="http://t.co/eK0RmCvrOl">http://t.co/eK0RmCvrOl</a></p>— Harry Enten (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/statuses/374387590553956352">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>His tweet was in connection to a <strike>five</strike> six-part series of tweets sent by the book's author, <b>Louis Flores</b>, that document Christine Quinn's series of <b>flip-flops</b> on <b>term limits</b>.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn Term Limits Flip-Flop Chronology 2001 (1/5) : opposed extending term limits : <a href="http://t.co/iHGCkkgcT5">http://t.co/iHGCkkgcT5</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/374386003483443200">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn Term Limits Flip-Flop Chronology 2001 (2/5) : 2001 : Wrote of dangers of TL : <a href="http://t.co/cUphbyKnjd">http://t.co/cUphbyKnjd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/374386274292883456">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn Term Limits Flip-Flop Chronology (3/5) : 2002 : voted to extend term limits <a href="http://t.co/KgJZoniLAv">http://t.co/KgJZoniLAv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/374386525896589312">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>One more Christine Quinn flip-flop position on Term Limits : 2005 : <a href="http://t.co/DU4VtXEgEp">http://t.co/DU4VtXEgEp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a> I'm updating book and blog.</p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/375274484288077824">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn Term Limits Flip-Flop Chronology (4/5) : 2007 : Opposes extension of term limits <a href="http://t.co/1h8vBMiFyh">http://t.co/1h8vBMiFyh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/374386806302588929">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn Term Limits Flip-Flop Chronology (5/5) : 2008 : votes to override term limits : <a href="http://t.co/WIp43Ty1LL">http://t.co/WIp43Ty1LL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten">@ForecasterEnten</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/374386938406379520">September 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-40717672499787296122013-09-01T08:04:00.000-07:002013-09-01T12:56:52.517-07:00Christine Quinn - 8 Years of Slush Funds @NYCCouncil Schedule C<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/164645243/FY-2007-City-Council-Adopted-Expense-Budget-Schedule-C" title="Christine Quinn - Fiscal Year 2007 Slush Funds from New York City Council city budget Schedule C" target="_blank"><img src="http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/maslow25/slush-fund-tweets_zps805e5192.jpg" width=525 height=387 border="0" alt=" photo slush-fund-tweets_zps805e5192.jpg"/></a>
<p>Some of the <b>fake charity groups</b> <b>Christine Quinn</b> used to divert discretionary funds for personal political gain. </p>
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<li><b>American Association of Concerned Veterans</b> received $422,763 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Association of Community Partners</b> received $400,000 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Coalition for a Strong Special Education</b> received $400,000 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Community Development for Stronger Neighborhoods</b> received $300,000 in slush funds.</li>
<li><b>Firewood Senior Services Center</b> received $300,000 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Immigration Improvement Project of NY</b> received $300,000 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Rockwood Regional Development Foundation</b> received $300,000 in slush funds. </li>
<li><b>Moving Up, Building Bridges</b> received $250,000 in slush funds. </li>
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<p>As a follow-up to yesterday's post (that <a href="http://christine-quinn-sold-out.blogspot.com/2013/08/Christine-Quinn-Missing-NYC-Fiscal-Year-2007-Budget-and-Schedule-C-Forms.html" title="Christine Quinn Missing NYC Fiscal Year 2007 Budget and Schedule C Form" target="_blank">FY 2007 Schedule C was missing</a>), we have turned up a copy, and now all eight years' worth of Schedules C's during Christine Quinn's speakership of the New York City Council are now uploaded onto Scribd. These are public documents, yet FY 2007 was not publicly available. Maybe it was because the FY 2007 Schedule C was used by <i>The New York Post</i> to expose the fact that Speaker Quinn had used fake charity groups to hide a political slush fund to dole out to her supporters. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_i4hBLqCHRGrdOKvxI8sWzH" title="This $$ Is Hers For The Faking : Quinn Office Probed Over Bogus Grant Groups" target="_blank">(This $$ Is Hers For The Faking * NYPost)</a> </p>
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<li>Updated : --<i><a href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2013/09/Christine-Quinn-8-Years-of-City-Budget-Slush-Funds-NYCCouncil-Schedule-C.html" title="Christine Quinn - 8 Years of City Budget Slush Funds @NYCCouncil Schedule C" target="_blank">Christine Quinn - 8 Years of City Budget Slush Funds @NYCCouncil Schedule C</a> (Revised : Sunday 11 Sept 2013 14:28)</i></font></li>
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<p>Fiscal Year 2007 budget documents, including Schedule C showing the disbursement of the New York City Council's discretionary slush fund budget items, are not publicly available on the New York City or City Council Web sites. About three months before the end of Fiscal Year 2007, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was exposed by <i>The New York Post</i> for having used fake charity groups to hide a political slush fund to dole out to her supporters. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_i4hBLqCHRGrdOKvxI8sWzH" title="This $$ Is Hers For The Faking : Quinn Office Probed Over Bogus Grant Groups" target="_blank">(This $$ Is Hers For The Faking * NYPost)</a></p>
<p>Here are a few Tweets sent tonight about the missing documents. Presumably, there is a reason that Speaker Quinn wants to deny the public access to Fiscal Year budget documents, including the scandalous Schedule C ?</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>New York City FY 2007 budget documents are not publicly available on <a href="http://t.co/XYoxyFRKbM">http://t.co/XYoxyFRKbM</a> Web site : <a href="http://t.co/VsAxBaWi4p">http://t.co/VsAxBaWi4p</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/373958201093279744">August 31, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FY 2007 Schedule C has disappeared from this page on <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCCouncil">@NYCCouncil</a> Web site : <a href="http://t.co/YriHS3TiGR">http://t.co/YriHS3TiGR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> (2 or 2)</p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/373957194938474497">August 31, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FY 2007 Schedule C has disappeared from this page on <a href="http://t.co/XYoxyFRKbM">http://t.co/XYoxyFRKbM</a> Web site : <a href="http://t.co/hUn7H4WjpH">http://t.co/hUn7H4WjpH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> (1 or 2)</p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/373956994949861376">August 31, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-20346306472703668772013-08-30T09:42:00.000-07:002013-08-30T09:42:33.679-07:00Christine Quinn Is "Standard Political Flimflam"<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn">@stopchrisquinn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/tomallon">@tomallon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCQuinn">@chriscquinn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/msnbctv">@msnbctv</a> don't know these deets but my exp w/her was very negative. Standard political flimflam</p>— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshtpm/statuses/154774515145113600">January 5, 2012</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-69920664041541145032013-08-29T17:36:00.000-07:002013-08-29T17:38:54.002-07:00Christine Quinn booed at Living Wage August 29 Union Square Fast Food Closing Rally<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn">@stopchrisquinn</a> Christine Quinn got the crap booed out of her at the fast food strike closing rally at union square <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829strike&src=hash">#829strike</a></p>— A People's History (@PeoplesHistory) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeoplesHistory/statuses/373198275383267328">August 29, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn just got booed off the stage at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829Strike&src=hash">#829Strike</a></p>— OWS People's Puppets (@Power2thePuppet) <a href="https://twitter.com/Power2thePuppet/statuses/373171033882497024">August 29, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> watered down <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23livingwage&src=hash">#livingwage</a> until it helps only 500 ppl. <a href="http://t.co/JeiTCNXUf6">http://t.co/JeiTCNXUf6</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/zarafa">@zarafa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/USRealityCheck">@USRealityCheck</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Power2thePuppet">@Power2thePuppet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829Strike&src=hash">#829Strike</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/373236654263123968">August 30, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-77003494718350980482013-08-29T11:35:00.000-07:002013-08-29T11:35:34.757-07:00The Kings of the NY Media Have No Clothes, de Blasio Unleashes New York Anger At the Rich<p><b><font size="5" color="#FF0000">True News From Change NYC : Latest Poll: NYC Media Disconnected With the Public </font></b></p>
<p>From True News From Change NYC : </p>
<blockquote><p><b><u>NY Media's Deviant Elite Subculture</u></b>. The once powerful NY Newspapers has become a subculture that the public no longer believes. The editorial boards and newsrooms are in shock that their over the top endorsements of stringer and Quinn are being rejected by the voters of New York. A media revolution is going on in New York. And its Tea Party moment (we are talking about the Boston Tea Party of 1773) was de Blasio standing up to those trying to close two Brooklyn hospitals. Not one newspaper editorial has backed Bill in his efforts to keep the hospitals open. In fact the NYT in their endorsement of Quinn said that de Blasio efforts were hopeless. New Yorkers are tired of the Bull Shit words coming out of the newspaper and candidates. They know they are being priced out of the city and those that they elected don't care. </p>
<p><b><u>The de Blasio Revolution: New Yorkers Have Reject the Media</u></b>. When de Blasio campaign went to court to keep the hospitals open the voters saw action not words. Every candidate this year has said they were going to say the middle class. That issue must be pollng high. There are other reasons that voters are turning to de Dlasio, his son TV ads, but the main factor is that New Yorkers are mad what has been done to their city. They think their pols have turned against them. Taking cash from developers whose luxury building are pushing them out of the city. By standing in front of <b>Long Island College Hospital</b> in Brooklyn Heights with a court order to keep the hospital from closing and being given to developers they saw someone who would protect their interests. </p>
<p><b><u>Bigger Tax Increase for the Rich</u></b>. Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said he would seek a slightly larger tax increase on wealthy New Yorkers than he originally indicated, raising questions as to how he would win approval for his plan from state lawmakers, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/education/obstacles-seen-for-de-blasios-preschools-plan.html" title="The Kings of the NY Media Have No Clothes, de Blasio Unleashes New York Anger At the Rich" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> reports.</p></blockquote>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-65449533626229647512013-08-29T10:51:00.003-07:002013-08-29T10:55:48.709-07:00Another Slimy Backroom Deal Christine Quinn Made To Become Speaker In 2006<div class="separator" alt="''Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn''" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://roots-of-betrayal.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" title="Rep. Joe Crowley and Christine Quinn. ''Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn''" src="http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/maslow25/joseph-crowley-christine-quinn-export_zpsa351f40b.jpg" width=200 height=208 /></a></div>
<p><b><font size="4" color="#FF0000">Christine Quinn Compromised On Reproductive Freedoms For Women</font></b></p>
<p>A passage from Chapter 8 of <i>''<a href="http://roots-of-betrayal.blogspot.com/" title="''Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn''" target="_blank">Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</a>''</i> about Christine Quinn's ascension into the speakership of the New York City Council : </p>
<p><blockquote>For Christine to make these giant leaps in power after less than six years in the City Council, she had to cut deals. The winners weren’t going to be the voters, who were still naively waiting for Christine to be a source of top-down support for bottom-up community empowerment. Instead, the winners were going to be the power brokers, the insiders, the lobbyists, and the political operatives on whose backs Christine climbed to further her own position in government. For example, in the weeks leading to the formal announcement that Christine had clinched the speakership, Christine co-hosted a fundraiser for Rep. <b>Joe Crowley</b>, a weak supporter of reproductive freedom for women. Rep. Crowley had succeeded <b>Tom Manton</b> in Congress, and Mr. Manton expected his subjects, which now included Christine, to express loyalty to the members of his political machine. Even though Christine kept brandishing her myth as an advocate for, among other things, abortion rights, the LGBT activist and social critic <b>Bill Dobbs</b> told The Village Voice that Christine was motivated to help Rep. Crowley “solely to win Manton’s support and the Queens delegation.” It was no coincidence that the higher up the totem pole that Christine climbed, the more glaring the betrayals to her own political ethics became. The rationalizations of Christine’s supporters became all the more bold, as well. <b>Michael McKee</b>, the controversial tenants’ rights activist, who was called on to provide more and more political cover to Christine, expressed his support to Christine for her contradictory support of Rep. Crowley. “Does it bother me ? No,” he told <i>The Village Voice.</i></blockquote></p>
NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-64916502642909509892013-08-28T16:38:00.000-07:002013-08-28T17:05:45.515-07:00When did Christine Quinn sell out to real estate developers ?<p><b><font size="3" color="#FF0000">Real Estates Donations To Christine Quinn Escalated in 2004</font></b></p>
<p>From Chapter 8 of "<a href="http://roots-of-betrayal.blogspot.com" title="A free preview of ''Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn'' is available on Scribd." target="_blank">Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</a>," available now on Scribd : </p>
<p><blockquote><i>The unmistakable spike in real estate donations to Christine’s political campaign as early as the 2005 election cycle meant that real estate interests and lobbyists were intending to compromise Christine’s independence on real estate issues. The sizeable donations from Gary Barnett, Douglas Durst, George Arzt, James Capalino, and some of the donations from the Meilman family dated back to 2004, an early sign that the fix may have already been in on the speakership from a year prior to the 2005 election. It’s not uncommon for real estate interests to begin making heavy campaign donations over a year in advance to their approved political candidates. The sizeable donations to Ms. Katz’s campaign account also reflected her own contention for the speakership. Christine’s campaign for the speakership began early, as measured by the flood of real estate donations, and, Christine followed Speaker Miller’s pattern of reaching out to the county bosses for their support. This county boss strategy was confirmed by Brooklyn councilmember Bill de Blasio, as told to New York magazine. “She understood, better than I did, that a lot of this ball game revolved around the county Democratic leaders,” he said, adding, “She did a better job in developing those relationships, presenting a personality they were comfortable with, finding out how not to be threatening to them.” In 2002, the Queens County Democratic boss, Tom Manton, had negotiated from Speaker Miller the City Council Land Use committee chair appointment for one of his delegation’s members, Melinda Katz, in whom the real estate industry had already invested multiple and sizeable campaign donations. In the run up to the 2005 campaign season, Mr. Manton was interested in maintaining the status quo for his own power base, as well as for real estate interests, who did not want to take a loss on the money that they had spent to finance Ms. Katz’s appointment to the Land Use committee. Upon Christine’s assumption of the speakership, Ms. Katz kept her leadership post on Land Use, and David Weprin, another member of the Queens City Council delegation, kept his appointment as chair of the powerful Finance committee. He, too, was well-financed by real estate interests and lobbyists. The permanent establishment that spends so heavily on reelecting approved incumbents does not like insurgents of any kind.</i></blockquote></p>
<p>Read more on Scribd : "<a href="http://roots-of-betrayal.blogspot.com" title="A free preview of ''Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn'' is available on Scribd." target="_blank">Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn</a>"</p>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-44515708462814242832013-08-27T17:01:00.000-07:002013-08-28T04:31:32.167-07:00Can we take 4 more years of Christine Quinn's laugh ?<iframe width="525" height="394" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VNafU4Hs8qg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-48705564065166261852013-08-27T09:16:00.000-07:002013-08-27T09:16:29.252-07:00Christine Quinn Mitt Romney The New York Post Endorsement<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn is the Mitt Romney in this year's mayoral race <a href="https://t.co/CrcxIwLN7y">https://t.co/CrcxIwLN7y</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23QueersAgainstChristineQuinn&src=hash">#QueersAgainstChristineQuinn</a> <a href="http://t.co/1XoWo6AAcg">pic.twitter.com/1XoWo6AAcg</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/372391844132290560">August 27, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-4473972368651664702013-08-25T20:55:00.002-07:002013-08-26T06:02:39.504-07:00Christine Quinn is not a lawyer, so she cannot join Greenberg Traurig once she loses the mayoral election, right ?<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Melinda Katz Was A Paid Lobbyist For <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost">@nypost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/newscorp">@newscorp</a> At Greenberg Traurig <a href="http://t.co/IEvCFlg873">http://t.co/IEvCFlg873</a></p>— Informed Voting (@informedvoting) <a href="https://twitter.com/informedvoting/statuses/371975967364763649">August 26, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p><b><font size="5" color="#FF0000">In 2009, after Melinda Katz lost a campaign for City Controller, she went to work for Greenberg Traurig.</font></b></p>
<p>Greenberg Traurig lawyers make consistently large donations to influential New York City Council members, either chairs of the Land Use Committee or to the Speaker of the City Council.</p>
<p>Many bloggers and activists are playing a parlor guessing game, trying to figure out where Christine Quinn will end up after she loses the 2013 mayoral election. </p>
<p>Speaker Quinn is not a lawyer, so she cannot end up taking a job at Greenberg Traurig, right ?</p>
<p>Will she land at a cushion, soft-landing job with Bolton-St. John with Emily Giske ? How about with James Capalino ? Or how about with Ethan Geto ? Or how about with Josh Isay ? Or how about with Michael Bloomberg ? Or how about with Bill Rudin ???</p>
<p>Will she end up somewhere else ?</p>
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<p><b><font size="5" color="#FF0000">The New York Times Mayoral Endorsement : Christine Quinn, the Democratic Choice</font></b></p>
<p>Following is a line-by-line explication of editorial in which New York City Council Speaker <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/sunday/two-endorsements.html?ref=editorials&_r=0" title="Explicating The New York Times Mayoral Endorsement of Christine Quinn" target="_blank">Christine Quinn is endorsed by the Editorial Board of The New York Times</a> :</p>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Mayor Michael Bloomberg is almost gone. </TD> <td>Real estate developers and big business interests are worried about who is going to carry out Mayor Bloomberg's policies for the next eight years.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>At year’s end there will be nothing more he can do to shape, alter or improve the City of New York. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board has been tasked by Mayor Bloomberg to help elect Christine Quinn.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>It’s the end of 12 years of governing under one man’s singular, often inspiring, sometimes maddening priorities, which were as big as a rising ocean and as small as your soda cup. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board is afraid of calling out Mayor Bloomberg for the dictatorial ways that he has run New York City. He wouldn't have made it to three terms, unless Christine Quinn violated the two voter referenda that imposed term limits, something the Editorial Board is trying to cover up.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>It was a vision that succeeded brilliantly, but incompletely. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Mayor Bloomberg should have done more to help the 1%.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>But don’t worry, New York. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board doesn't want the Real Estate Board of New York or the Partnership For New York City, our last two groups of major advertisers, to worry.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Mr. Bloomberg’s is hardly the only way to run a city, and the excellent news is that there is a candidate who is ready to carry on at least as well as he did.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is going to help Mayor Bloomberg anoint his own chosen successor.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She is one of seven Democrats who have been toiling for months in the primary race, standing before voters day and night in a marathon of civic engagement. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that even through Christine Quinn has been in public office for 15 years, she has had to hurry up and do her "wawk and tawk" tour to try to introduce herself to the taxpayers paying for her political slush fund.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>A common complaint is that this year’s candidates look small, like dots on the slopes of Mount Bloomberg.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board thinks that even though the crop of candidates are not billionaires, if we have to do with peons, we can accept Christine Quinn, because she's proven to have sold her soul to big business interests, which is the only thing that the Editorial Board cares about, frankly.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>But that isn’t fair; all but a few are solid public servants running substantive campaigns.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board has to give lip service to the other candidates, so voters could fool themselves into thinking the editors might possibly consider a candidate other than Mayor Bloomberg's heir apparent. </TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Though the race was crashed, and distracted for a few irritating weeks, by the unqualified Anthony Weiner, it has since sobered up, and voters are paying attention. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board did its best to keep focusing on Anthony Weiner in a negative light, so that the editors could dispatch him as quickly as possible, so that the editors could focus on fluffing Christine Quinn's sagging campaign.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>It is clear by now — and last Wednesday’s debate made it even clearer — that the best in the group is Christine Quinn.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is trying to make this hard sell of Christine Quinn, so we will go to any lengths to push her campaign on voters.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Ms. Quinn, the City Council speaker, offers the judgment and record of achievement anyone should want in a mayor.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Christine Quinn has a corrupt enough record that she will nicely fit into the broken political system.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Two opponents — Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, and William Thompson Jr., former comptroller — offer powerful arguments on their own behalf.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board wants to give these two fools more lip service, yadda-yadda-yadda.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>But Ms. Quinn inspires the most confidence that she would be the right mayor for the inevitable times when hope and idealism collide with the challenge of getting something done.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Christine Quinn will be a perfect puppet to her REBNY and PFNYC masters.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Ms. Quinn has been an impressive leader since her days as a neighborhood advocate and her early years on the City Council. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Christine Quinn has fully sold out and betrayed her activism roots by now. She's gotten that shit out of her system, and she is a complete "Yes Woman" to her campaign contributors and special interests.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>We endorsed her for the Council in 1999 as someone “who can both work within the system and criticize it when necessary” — a judgment she has validated many times since. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board analyses this as meaning that Christine Quinn will do what she is told by big business, and she will continue to undermine democracy and shred the social safety net when instructed.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td> She has shepherded through important laws protecting New Yorkers’ health, safety and civil rights, including measures banning public smoking, protecting tenants and small businesses, and battling slumlords. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board wants to remind big business interests that Christine Quinn has a record of doing what Mayor Bloomberg told her to do.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She sponsored the sweeping 2007 legislation that made the city’s exemplary campaign-finance laws even stronger.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is only telling you a half-truth here, because Christine Quinn also weakened campaign finance laws this very year to benefit outside groups being able to spend unlimited amounts of money to further corrupt political campaigns.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She pushed successfully for a state law making kindergarten mandatory for 5-year-olds — giving thousands of poor and minority children a better start on their educations.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board likes it when Christine Quinn focuses her campaign on childish issues, because that helps voters forget her betrayals on term limits and her corrupt record with slush funds.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>As speaker, Ms. Quinn has been a forceful counterpart to Mr. Bloomberg, and has turned the Council from a collection of rambunctious, ill-directed egos into a forceful and effective legislative body. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Christine Quinn subjugated herself to Mayor Bloomberg, and she used her slush funds to reward and punish her political allies and enemies like a good political boss should do.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>In wrestling with budgets she has shown restraint that runs counter to lesser political instincts. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board is most impressed that Christine Quinn was able to focus on a political agenda that favoured the 1%, even when it meant driving up poverty and homelessness in New York City during the Bloomberg-Quinn administration.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She fought, for example, for a Bloomberg plan to keep a year’s surplus as a rainy-day fund. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board liked that Christine Quinn didn't use surplus funds to fight poverty or homelessness.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>There was fierce opposition from Council members who wanted to spend the money.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board congratulates Christine Quinn turned her back on the needy, especially LGBT homeless youth, which is not an easy thing to do, given her identity. Let's give her some credit for that !</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Ms. Quinn was right, and the city had a cushion when the recession hit.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is impressed that Christine Quinn found ways to prevent tax hikes on the 1%.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Mr. Bloomberg has raised expectations that hard decisions should be made on the merits — that the city needs a mayor who is willing to say no. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board is endorsing Christine Quinn in part because Mayor Bloomberg told us to, and plus we may need to be bought out by Mayor Bloomberg if the newspaper business keeps losing money.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td> More than with the other candidates, that description fits Ms. Quinn.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that Christine Quinn is the most corrupt candidate, and the extremes that she will go to embrace corruption is why Mayor Bloomberg respects her so much, that's what he told the Editorial Board during our back room meeting.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>As an early leader in the campaign, with a target on her back, she has faced anger and derision without wavering. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board has tried to keep extending political cover to Christine Quinn, so that she wouldn't suffer such a steep drop in the polls.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>We admire her staunch support for the city’s solid-waste management plan, which is good for the whole city but bitterly opposed in some neighborhoods. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board picked this lousy issue to focus on, because the editors didn't want to touch the slush fund scandal.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She has been willing to challenge the mayor’s misjudgment and insensitivity, as when he tried to require single adults to prove their homelessness before they were allowed to use city shelters.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board mentions the only thing Christine Quinn has done to address a small part of the homeless problem, so that the editors could keep running the façade of a "liberal newspaper."</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Mr. de Blasio has been the most forceful and eloquent of the Democrats in arguing that New York needs to reset its priorities in favor of the middle class, the struggling and the poor. </TD> <td>The there is no way that the Editorial Board could ever support a candidate that wants to help the poor.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>His stature has grown as his message has taken root — voters leery of stark and growing inequalities have embraced his message of “two cities.” </TD> <td>The Editorial Board endorsed Christine Quinn so that we could shift the campaign conversation to be about identity politics, not about income inequality.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>He has ennobled the campaign conversation by insisting, correctly, that expanding early education is vital to securing the city’s future. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board picked early education as an issue for Mr. de Blasio, because that's an issue that provides the editors with some political cover in the Christine Quinn endorsement.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>And yet, Mr. de Blasio’s most ambitious plans — like a powerful new state-city partnership to make forever-failing city hospitals financially viable, or to pay for universal prekindergarten and after-school programs through a new tax on the richest New Yorkers — need support in the State Capitol, and look like legislative long shots. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board has brought back Anemona Hartocollis to continue to write shoddy and entirely biased reporting to undermine Mr. de Blasio's platform on saving community hospitals.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Once a Mayor de Blasio saw his boldest ideas smashed on the rocks of Albany, then what?</TD> <td>The Editorial Board was told by Mayor Bloomberg that he would pull strings with the state GOP politicians up in Albany to undermine any candidate other than Christine Quinn.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Mr. Thompson, meanwhile, who nearly defeated Mr. Bloomberg four years ago, has run a thoughtful campaign grounded on the insights he gained in important elective and appointed posts in New York City.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board can't take Bill Thompson seriously. His wife has taken millions in charitable donations from Mayor Bloomberg. There's no way that the Thompson family isn't already indebted to Mayor Bloomberg, even the editors would figure out this much.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>A former president of the old Board of Education, Mr. Thompson argues that he is the best candidate to fix the city schools, but his close ties to the United Federation of Teachers, not always a friend of needed reforms, give us pause. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board was told by Mayor Bloomberg that the next item on our political agenda is to bust up the teachers' union.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>The teachers’ union is one of the municipal unions itching for retroactive pay raises in contracts that expired under Mr. Bloomberg and need renegotiating.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is going to start a campaign to deny the teachers' union any pay raise.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>For all the growing testiness of the campaign, the Democrats share much common ground.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that enough real estate and big business campaign donations have steered the Democratic candidates into adopting campaign platforms that embrace an ideology of neoliberalism.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>All agree on equality, opportunity and fairness.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board doesn't give a shit about equality, opportunity and faireness -- except as it would apply to our dwindling list of advertisers.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>They concede that the best of the Bloomberg years — the economic diversification and growth, the astounding drop in crime, the transit innovations, the greener and cleaner public spaces, and big plans for the future — must be preserved.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board wants a mayoral candidate that will continue Mayor Bloomberg's policies of gentrification, stop and frisk discrimination, higher transit fares for commuters, the sale of more parks for sports stadiums, and more zone-busting real estate development.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>And they agree that the worst must be corrected — starting with the Police Department’s unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk, which has abused and humiliated hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board believes that stop and frisk should be ended in the outer boroughs, but its use should continue in Manhattan, perhaps even increased. </TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Ms. Quinn has no specific plan to require the richest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes in service of important civic goals (she says she will raise taxes as a last resort), but neither has she made a long list of unrealistic promises.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is happy to see that Christine Quinn will keep sparing the 1% from having to pay their fair share, and, even better, Christine Quinn isn't making any promises to the poor or working classes of New York City. If low-income New Yorkers can't afford to live in New York City, they can always move to New Jersey.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>The biggest challenge has not been talked about much — next year the new mayor will have to confront a budget crisis with no money to spare and all those expired municipal contracts to settle. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board is salivating at the opportunity that Christine Quinn will have to bust up a few municipal unions.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>The mayor we will need then will not be the police reformer or education visionary, but a skilled and realistic negotiator.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board doesn't want Christine Quinn to reform the police department. As stated, the editors prefer to continue stop and frisk discrimination and police brutality as a way to drive out undesireables from the five boroughs, or from Manhattan, at least.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Some positions Ms. Quinn has supported are unwise or objectionable. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board is thrilled that Christine Quinn so readily adopted neoliberal and racist policies without complaint.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td> She has been too strong in supporting Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the architect and stoutest defender of stop-and-frisk.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board expects that Christine Quinn will expand the use of stop-and-frisk.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She has supported, too blindly, Mr. Kelly’s practice of spying on Muslims at prayer, a similar false choice of public safety over the Constitution.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board finds this kind of discrimination excusable, and notice how the editors didn't mention how the NYPD also menaces people of color and LGBTQ and gender non-conforming New Yorkers. Basically, the editors don't care about civil rights and civil liberties violations.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She can become mumbly when talking about things that the real estate industry opposes, like changing zoning laws to require construction of affordable apartments. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board likes that Christine Quinn won't bite the hand that feeds her.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She has a reputation for shouting, but has shown a capacity to listen, and to be persuaded to change her mind — attributes we will count on seeing more of if she is elected.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is already receiving estimates and bids for the installation of sound proofing in Gracie Mansion.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>We had already made up our own minds in favor of Ms. Quinn, but the Wednesday debate would have clinched it anyway. </TD> <td>For years, the Editorial Board has been instructing reporters to write their articles from a point of view of bias that fluff's Christine Quinn's image and her campaign.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>Candidates were asked what legacy they wanted to leave after two terms.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board has arranged it for fix to be in so that Christine Quinn can serve two terms as mayor.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td> “More people in the middle class,” Ms. Quinn said. </TD> <td>The Editorial Board helped Christine Quinn with this lip service.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>It was a perfect answer, and she could have left it there.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board told Christine Quinn to shut her mouth and not ruin her interview with the editors.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>But, Quinn being Quinn, she threw in supporting details. </TD> <td>But being the big mouth that she is, Christine Quinn went on tawking and tawkig and tasking, so much so that many editors put on their earphones and started listening to the latest Lady Gaga song on their iPhones.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She wants 40,000 more apartments the middle class can afford to live in.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board did hear that Christine Quinn has a plan to help funnel tax breaks and low-cost loans to developers, so that taxpayers could subsidize real estate profits to some of her campaign donors.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She wants to repair crumbling public housing, providing “quality conditions” for 600,000 people.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board promised to help support Christine Quinn carry out Mayor Bloomberg's plan to allow the development of luxury high rises on the last little bit of open space in NYCHA housing projects.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>She wants to make the school day longer and replace textbooks with electronic tablets.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board also liked what it heard when Christine Quinn said that she wants to outsource teachers to a series of computer learning modules in 45 minute segments.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>At the buzzer, she threw in: make the city “climate-change ready.”</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is looking forward to finding out how Christine Quinn has funnel more tax dollars to real estate developers that keep wanting to build along the rivers and beaches of the five boroughs. The editors view this as a risky proposition, but Christine Quinn seems to be obsessed with making more and more back room deals with real estate developers. The editors want to see how much she can get away with.</TD> </TR>
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<tr VALIGN=TOP> <td>A lot of good ideas that, in Ms. Quinn’s case, add up to an achievable vision, and one we would be glad to see come to pass.</TD> <td>The Editorial Board is going to help Christine Quinn win by running more fluff pieces about her new luxury condo, her week-end home, her cooking skills, her favourite café, and her love of animals.</TD> </TR>
</table>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-86768508916413849522013-08-24T13:27:00.000-07:002013-08-24T19:48:53.186-07:00Eric Rudin : "Let Them Eat Cake"<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Queers Against Quinn respond to <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes">@nytimes</a> endorsement of <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> <a href="https://t.co/E9IjDCe4iR">https://t.co/E9IjDCe4iR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/colvinj">@colvinj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SallyGold">@SallyGold</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Azi">@Azi</a> <a href="http://t.co/gPc2aoFt2t">pic.twitter.com/gPc2aoFt2t</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/371417513705226241">August 24, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p><b><font size="5" color="#FF0000">"Is This How Eric Rudin Does Business ?"</font></b></p><p>Watch as 1%'er Eric Rudin laughs at community activists, who are fighting for a hospital to replace St. Vincent's.</p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CSYorqOGGQQ" alt="Let them eat cake." frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-82229974528007018852013-08-23T09:02:00.000-07:002013-08-23T09:02:49.566-07:00Christine Quinn Thomas Dewey Harry Truman Newspaper Headline Misfortune<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Is this Christine Quinn's "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment ? <a href="https://twitter.com/DNDailyPolitics">@DNDailyPolitics</a> <a href="http://t.co/5UBvlB1ox2">pic.twitter.com/5UBvlB1ox2</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/370936007937372160">August 23, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-69492884666183049482013-08-21T20:27:00.001-07:002013-08-21T20:27:36.052-07:00Christine Quinn Cancels Fire Island Fundraisers ; Activists Cancel Protests<p>PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT QUINN HAS CANCELLED all three of her Fire Island fundraisers on Saturday, claiming that she has to be in Washington D.C. for a march commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech. Quinn has known about that march for a long time, and she could have easily flown back to Long Island from Washington in time for her afternoon fundraisers. Having an out-of-town conflict must be the best excuse she could find to cancel all of her Fire Island events.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>After groups plan protests at <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> Fire Island fundraisers, Quinn cancels events. <a href="https://t.co/XDab7WZN5t">https://t.co/XDab7WZN5t</a> <a href="http://t.co/BhG4sAuaCE">pic.twitter.com/BhG4sAuaCE</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/370386055955881985">August 22, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Of course, we know the truth --- Quinn cancelled because she would have been humiliated by the day of protests, and she does not want NYers to know that she is being rejected by people in her own community. Because her events are cancelled, we are canceling the trip to Fire Island. Again, thanks to everybody for supporting our efforts.</p>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-67450983863189000572013-08-21T11:07:00.000-07:002013-08-21T12:43:23.969-07:00SUNY Took Over LICH To Sell the Real Estate - Where Is the Criminal Investigation ?<p>SUNY Took Over LICH To Sell the Real Estate - Where Is the Criminal Investigation ? (<a href="http://truenewsfromchangenyc.blogspot.com/2013/08/with-cutbacks-in-publishing.html" title="SUNY Took Over LICH To Sell the Real Estate - Where Is the Criminal Investigation ?" target="_blank">True News</a>)</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SUNY&src=hash">#SUNY</a>'s 2011 takeover of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LICH&src=hash">#LICH</a> was encumbered by fraud, then the dealmakers must be investigated <a href="http://t.co/xXhMeiFwlu">http://t.co/xXhMeiFwlu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Preet&src=hash">#Preet</a></p>— StopNYMRT (@StopNYMRT) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopNYMRT/statuses/370202418601943040">August 21, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<p>Judge <b>Carolyn Demarest</b> has found that SUNY may have taken over Long Island College Hospital with the intention of "a more sinister purpose <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/187443/judge-orders-lich-ownership-change--but-named-operator-says-no" title="Judge Carolyn Demarest wrote, ''The wave of enthusiasm for a solution that would preserve LICH may have blinded many to a more sinister purpose to seize its assets and dismantle the hospital.''" target="_blank">to seize its assets and dismantle the hospital</a>." If the <a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/133844/ny1-exclusive--state-politicians-make-deal-to-save-long-island-college-hospital" title="NY1 Exclusive : State Politicians Make Deal To Save Long Island College Hospital" target="_blank">2011 SUNY takeover of LICH</a> was encumbered by fraud, then Stanley Brezenoff, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the SUNY Board of Trustees, Carl McCall, and Stephen Berger need to be investigated.</p>
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<p><b>Queers Against Christine Quinn</b> is joining members of the <b>Defeat Christine Quinn</b> group and The <b>Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club</b> and our supporters in <b>Fire Island</b> to protest Christine Quinn at three fundraisers for her campaign on Saturday, August 24th. </p>
<p>RSVP on Facebook : <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/493892014031143/" title="Fire Island Invasion to Protest Christine Quinn - Saturday, August 24, 2013" target="_blank">Protest Against Christine Quinn - Fire Island</a></p>NYC News & Analysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06899988550696097916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8700360631649664468.post-67749666868169018952013-08-13T17:17:00.000-07:002013-08-13T17:17:17.585-07:00Christine Quinn Falls Flat At Mayoral Candidate Debate (Select Tweets)<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>"Too many middle class families are falling behind" precisely because of the <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg">@MikeBloomberg</a>-<a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCQuinn">@ChrisCQuinn</a> agenda. <a href="https://twitter.com/DNDailyPolitics">@DNDailyPolitics</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/367435125572648961">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Quinn supporters seem disoriented & unhinged by the poll showing <a href="https://twitter.com/deBlasioNYC">@deBlasioNYC</a> in the lead. They were so arrogant & dismissive before.</p>— Michael Cavadias (@michaelcavadias) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelcavadias/statuses/367432910670155776">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Christine Quinn is coming off as whiny. She on the offensive just like her mentor Bloomberg - still attacking Wiener lol <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn">@stopchrisquinn</a></p>— Adelnation (@adelnation) <a href="https://twitter.com/adelnation/statuses/367430957218795521">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SallyGold">@SallyGold</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/deBlasioNYC">@deBlasioNYC</a> You're defending the truth. More journalists need to call out pols when they're intentionally deceptive.</p>— Charmian Neary (@CharmianNeary) <a href="https://twitter.com/CharmianNeary/statuses/367430876994355200">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>For some reason, <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> is the only cand going directly after <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyweiner">@anthonyweiner</a> Most others seem to wish he weren't there</p>— Erin (@erinleinhorn) <a href="https://twitter.com/erinleinhorn/statuses/367429736265297920">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Attacking <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyweiner">@anthonyweiner</a> won't help <a href="https://twitter.com/Quinn4NY">@Quinn4NY</a> appeal to women voters. <a href="http://t.co/f2ZPdciy37">http://t.co/f2ZPdciy37</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Angry_Oldman">@Angry_Oldman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/erinleinhorn">@erinleinhorn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Slate">@Slate</a></p>— Stop Christine Quinn (@stopchrisquinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/stopchrisquinn/statuses/367432877010464768">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Why the heck is Quinn going after Weiner? What is she doing? Easy target? Just seems like getting dragged in the mud for no reason.</p>— Harry Enten (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/statuses/367424625103601664">August 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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