Billionaires For Wealthcare at Crain's Symposium

''We are not amused !''

Outside the Essex House on Central Park South, a restricted symposium sponsored by the business rag Crain's was the setting for a reunion of the Billionaires For Wealthcare. The callous and greedy Billionaires For Wealthcare demonstrated in support of the billionaire Rudin real estate dynasty, who are converting the real estate formerly serving as a 501(c)(3) non-profit hospital into an "exclusive" and massive luxury condo and townhouse complex. The Rudin family issued a statement, saying, in part, that "Taxpayer money needs to be used to support billionaires. We need more government money for a Wealthcare Bailout Fund to help prevent insolvent billionaires from having to downsize from drinking Champagne to California sparkling wine."

Quinn Wants Mayoral Control

New York City Speaker Christine Quinn would keep mayoral control over schools.

Speaker Quinn told parents that she thinks that mayor's absolute powers should be preserved, so that when Mayor Bloomber helps her to defeat all her Democratic Party rivals in the primary elections, she could keep that power for her own discretionary use.

Is Christine Quinn A Crook ?

Are you waiting for Christine Quinn to say, "I am not a crook ?"

If you are asking yourself this question, then you haven't been paying attention to how New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has engaged in a quid-pro-quo (or "pay to play") deal with the Rudin Family over the luxury condo development rights to St. Vincent's Hospital. If you follow the campaign donation money, then you'll see how Speaker Quinn is a crook for taking $30,000 in exchange for approving the Rudin Family's luxury condo conversion plan.

#Hospitalgate

St. Vincent's Hospital Collided With Rudin Family Greed

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of its sinking, please join us on Saturday night for a Titanic candlelight vigil :   RSVP to 100th anniversary vigil for the Titanic disaster.

Titanic Candlelight Vigil for St. Vincent's Hospital
Public Event · By Hands off St. Vincent's

Saturday, April 14, 2012
7:30pm until 8:30pm

Bring candles. When the Titanic sank, Sister Miriam Kevin Phillips said, the Sisters of Charity wired the rescue ship, the Carpathia, that St. Vincent’s ambulances would be waiting at the dock, but would take only passengers from steerage. They knew, she said, that the rich passengers would be taken care of. Let's pay respect to the hospital, which provided emergency and life-saving medical care to the 99%.

Rudin Family HIV/AIDS Scam

Mic Check !!

How many HIV/AIDS services ended by the closing of St. Vincent's ? Shame on the Rudin Family !!

Date : Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Time : Show up at 6:30 p.m.

Place : Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway, NYC

The Rudin family practically foreclosed on St. Vincent's Hospital, shutting down the historic hospital's HIV/AIDS treatment programs and clinics. In the on-going fight against AIDS, why did the Rudin family close the critical prevention and care services to men, women and families that are living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in New York City ? Join us for this important protest.

Quinn EMS Doctored Statistics ?

Manufactured 911 Emergency Response Times

Following damning revelations that the Bloomberg administration may be deliberately manipulating the EMS response and transit times in official FDNY statistics, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn remains silent about the growing scandal over the way that City Budget that Speaker Quinn puts together year after year has squandered $2 billion in a broken Unified Call Taker-911 Dispatch and Emergency Call System. With so many hospital closings, how are EMS response and transit times being impacted ? Why can't the public know what the official EMS statistics are ?

Male Stripper Performs At Christine Quinn Protest

Political Strip Tease

For those of you who missed the Christine Quinn protest last night, a drunk man treated protesters to a live strip show.

Christine Quinn Rudin Family

2012 03 29 Christine Quinn Rudin Family

Did Christine Quinn Give Up On Saving St. Vincent's In Exchange for Campaign Donations From The Rudin Family ?

Rudin Family HIV AIDS Betrayal St. Vincent's

The Rudin family foreclosed on St. Vincent's Hospital, shutting down the historic hospital's HIV/AIDS treatment programs and clinics.

In the on-going fight against AIDS, why did the Rudin family close the critical prevention and care services to men, women and families that are living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in New York City ? Join us for this important protest.

Date : Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Time : Show up at 6:30
Place : Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway @36th Street

Boss Quinn March 28 Update

Notes from a Watcher :

We knew Boss Quinn would have her way. A cameraman was on the floor filming the proceedings and said she was clearly "bristled" by our presence in the gallery. I saw her look up once scanning us to see who was there.

It was a New York circus. Outside when we arrived to over 100 hood wearing individuals having a press conference for a Florida murder with council members wearing hoodies. Entering we went into chambers and the guards said the seats were only for council staff. We went up to the gallery on the third floor. There were 11 of us in the gallery. One person came up with Quinn's assistant and the ASL translators. For the first time any could remember they said the translators had to perform in the third floor gallery and not on the council floor as in the past.

They had about 10 officers and suited police around the gallery. They made the ASL Translators crawl under a railing to get to the chair to sign ASL. One community member was high strung and police kept telling her that she had to be quiet and all of us to wear our signs at chest high. She kept pushing buttons with her disgust and the delay of the hearing. It seemed as much as she did or anyone else the threat of removal was vocalized but nothing happened or arrests occurred. It was scheduled ceremonial at 12:30pm and hearing at 1:00pm, delayed to1:00pm and hearing at 1:30pm, to 1:30pm and then 2:00pm. The ceremony started at 2:17pm.

Quinn picking up a mike like a sideshow hawker announcing a Con-Edison interruption of a robbery of a Woman beaten and robbed. All families of the three Con Edison spidermen were there. All 50 members of the three individuals. Barker Quinn then announced that celebration was over. Only to Bark, Quinn announced a Bronx group of 30 out of 125 Auxilley NYPD group. They got an award.

Then the pledge of alligence and a religious devotion with all standing.

Then with white council members, some council members of color wearing hoodies they lit into a remembrance of Trayron and his life cut short. then a moment of silence. Only a month after he was shot and killed.

Then without missing a beat Quinn opened the reading of the Rudin Plan. members began to pull their hoodies off, showing their white shirts and skin. No sooner they began to debate the Arts Society and disbanding it because the Arts Society does not keep notes of their meetings.

Then a discussion of street lights and crossings for the disabled (blind) with bird call noises for green light crosswalks. That will keep some alive on Queens Boulevard.

Then a discussion on the time it takes to get out of your car, buy a parking ticket, return to your car to find a green sticker and ticket on the car. they proposed a five, not six, not seven minute honor for those drivers not to get a ticket by an aggressive ticket writer.

Then a discussion of workers higher wages for large companies required for companies getting subsidies from NYC. The vote was high enough for that in the end to override a veto by King Bloomberg.

Then they read each line item getting to the Rudin Plan in several parts. all the time reading each Quinn or other council member would speak up with coded or actual talking about the items up for vote. Restaurants, all above and other item all thrown in the brew of Rudin Greed. Council member Barron was the only member to speak up against the Rich Rudins and that they had the money to build a new hospital if they wanted to. The Rudin's are rich enough to put a Hospital in cause they have the money to cover it. He called on members to deny the plan and send it back to the Rudins for changes for a new hospital. Then a vote by roll call. 49- Yea 2 -Abstain and 1 - (Barron) No.

We got up to leave and one community member began to yell. Security and Police telling her to be quiet and the Chair downstairs banging his gavel to be quiet he dismissed the hearing at 5:15pm. As we left down the stairs, Travis, Melanie, the strange white haired guy, and a young woman who knew me but I not her. On the landings The community member was giving the Rudin cronies all hell for standing around and gloating. Melanie of Fried Frank passed me and said "you were the most civil through this process." I replied I had to bite my tongue to keep from getting sick over the greed. Travis smiled and I said I guess it is time now to start screwing up the Oreo factory, your next project. He smiled.

It was found out that the Rudin clan had been given priority seating on the Chamber floor, that the community had been denied seating. Boss Quinn at work getting those campaign donations from the Rudin Family and Management. Screwing Community.

On the steps we held the banner. DNAinfo news took a photo of the banner and a member who had almost died without SVH read the HOSVH Press Release.

March 28,2012
NYC Hall
Press Release
It is Unconscionable that 1.5 million people on the West Side of Manhattan have no hospital.

We have been betrayed by our council member, Speaker Christine Quinn.

Quinn could have saved St. Vincent's Hospital.

Quinn did not.

No Politician stood up for us.

The voters of New York will hold Elected Officials responsible.

We Demand a West Side Hospital.
Organization's:
* Hands Off St. Vincent's Hospital

* Demand A New Hospital
A community member shamed the Rudin clan that were standing on the plaza to gloating for the news media. They left. Then the camera man interviewed the community member standing behind the banner below:

Chris Quinn:
You let our Hospital Close.

We want our hospital back.

On the way out of the parking lot, Council Member Mark Weprin was talking to someone and The community member lit into him. She confronted Scott Stringer a block away at a diner. He told her it was out of his hands.

At night, 7pm, we joined the anti-Quinn folk outside the 92nd Y where Chelsea Clinton was giving Quinn a Woman's awards for her contribution to the community. The Award was a laugh (sigh). Quinn entered the event at a stage door entrance on the cross street through the garbage piles at the door as she does most of her campaign stops. We were there with little harassment from Quinn's NYPD presence of about 12 officers and 5 suited officers and 2 secret service agents. We left at 8:15pm for home. It was successful and people engaged in discussions with all the protestors. The Anti-Quinn group put together quite a diverse collection of individuals upset with Quinn on several issues. HOSVH had three posters of photos from the public hearing lockout on March 06. They need descriptions on them for a clearer viewpoint. Like "3/6/12 Quinn locked out Seniors and the disabled to attend the only public hearing for the Rudin Plan to destroy a community and healthcare."

Quinn Betrayed the Community she represents.

Quinn is no leader.

Quinn has lied to the community.

We are still sad about the loss. we have pledged to birddog Quinn until a full hospital returns and anyone else who stands in the way. No shame. The truth prevails.

We need a Full Service Hospital, ER, and Trauma Center. Nothing less!

Hands Off St. Vincent's Hospital

Demand A New Hospital

Et tu, GMHC ? St. Vincent's Hospital Traitor

Today, Speaker Christine Quinn scheduled the vote on the Rudin condo conversion plan. It passed 48-1 ; the only councilmember, who voted against the Rudin plan, was Charles Barron, who represents Brownsville and East New York (Brooklyn).

http://www.dnainfo.com/20120328/greenwich-village-soho/st-vincents-development-plan-gets-final-approval-from-city-council

Councilmember Barron represents a part of Brooklyn that used to be served by St. Mary’s Hospital (which used to be under the St. Vincent’s umbrella system of hospitals) ; St. Mary’s was closed in 2005.

http://www.nylpi.org/images/FE/chain234siteType8/site203/client/Health%20-%20Press%20Release%20-%2005.23.05_CSOH%20rally%20to%20save%20St.Mary.pdf

I think he may be the only politician of conscious in the fight for St. Vincent’s ?

Councilmember Barron also represents the part of Brooklyn that looks like will be even more severely impacted if Brookdale University Hospital were to close :

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/nyregion/strained-brooklyn-hospitals-are-subject-of-cuomo-study-group.html

Meanwhile, I was just informed that Speaker Quinn and the Rudin family have triangulated with GMHC to deflect criticism away from the Rudin family for how they have unilaterally decided what kind of healthcare space the Lower West Side can have :

http://www.gmhc.org/donate/special-events/30th-anniversary-dinner/honorees

The Rudin’s have paid enough money to GMHC, and GMHC has rented out its name in exchange for PR spin to benefit Rudin -- even as Speaker Quinn and the City Council have given the Rudin family the green light to make hundreds of millions of dollars in NET PROFITS from the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital. This has expensive lobbyists’/PR spin doctors’ fingerprints all over it.

The bottom line here is clear : if you are a 1% billionaire foreclosing on 501(c)(3) public charities (the Rudin family were mortgage holders on some of St. Vincent's buildings), then you just need to ring up GMHC CEO Marjorie Hill, and, if the price is right, she will give you an award to give you charity cred to distract people from your ruthless ways.

I wonder what Larry Kramer has to say about this ? Or does he know enough to expect such dirty tricks from Speaker Quinn and Ms. Hill ?

WIC Program Cut 30 Percent

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has issued no public opinion, naturally, about the 2012 federal budget that cuts 30 per cent. from WIC's fresh produce programme. #socialsafetynet #shameful

Christine Quinn Would Keep Ray Kelly As NYPD Commish

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is running for mayor of New York City in 2013, is expected to keep NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. Speaker Quinn is responsible for the protest permit law, which bedevils the #OccupyWallStreet social movement. And so it should come as no surprise that Speaker Quinn would continue her crackdown on any kind of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly by keeping Commish Kelly, the heavy-handed enforcer, who encourages police brutality, supports racial- and religious-profiling, and the use of pepper spray on innocent young ladies.

Peninsula Hospital Closes Forever

Peninsula Hospital Center joins a long list of hospitals, which have closed on New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's watch.

In the time that Christine Quinn has been Speaker of the New York City Council, at least eight city hospitals have closed :

• North General Hospital in Harlem declared bankruptcy in 2010 ;
• St. Vincent's Hospital in the West Village was shut down in 2010 after shady backroom meetings ;
• St. John's Queens Hospital in Elmhurst went bankrupt in 2009 ;
• Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica went bankrupt in 2009 ;
• Parkway Hospital in Forest Hills decided to close in 2008 ;
• Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan closed in 2008 ;
• Victory Memorial Hospital in Bay Ridge closed in 2008 ; and
• St. Vincent's Midtown in Manhattan closed in 2007.

Quinn Offers No Comment Regarding NYPD Brutality Of #OWS Protesters

No comment, yet, of course, from Christine Quinn, in regards to the NYPD's on-going campaign of police brutality against peaceful activists.