Saturday, October 18, 2014

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Mark Levine
Advance Berlin Rosen


"The penalties levied today against the Cumbo and Levine City Council campaigns represent only the first step in this proceeding," board chair Rose Gill Hearn said in a statement. "The Board will consider violations and penalties for the other parties to these transactions."


With new evidence pointing to alleged illegal coordination, Advance Group’s President Scott Levenson campaign practices are damaging his brand; will it extend to his clients as well?



The CFB has failed to offer one iota of evidence that coordination took place in this case,” said attorney Larry Mandelker.  It is interesting that Mandelker the attorney in 2009 for Data and Field, a different CFB campaign funding scandal that the WFP is trying to stop in the Staten Island courts, would comment on the recent CFB fines involving Advance Group PAC NYCLASS. Both the candidates fined with Advance were endorsed by the WFP


Brooklyn DA Thompson Berlin Rosen
Hynes Advance Group With George Arzt

AG Schniderman Berlin Rosen

de Blasio Berlin Rosen

Stinger Berlin Rosen, Arzt, Advance
SKD Knickerbocker




Friend of Silver  Berlin Rosen


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FRIENDS OF DEBORAH "DEBI" ROSE 2009 Berlin Rosen






Not Vision Zero When It Comes to Taxi Drivers

Hacking Feet
Cabby who sheared off beauty queen’s leg is back behind the wheel(NYP) Himon claimed he was cut off by cyclist Kenneth ­Olivo, 41, and lost control of his cab after he tried to zip ahead of the pedal pusher. After the accident, the TLC suspended Himon’s license for 30 days, and he was slapped with a summons for operating a cab he was not authorized to be driving. But since neither the Manhattan district attorney nor the NYPD filed criminal charges against Himon, the agency reinstated his license, which he claimed last Sept. 26. The TLC — which has vowed to take new steps to keep dangerous drivers off the road — did ask Himon to voluntarily surrender his license, but he refused, an agency spokesman said. The Bangladesh native, who has been in the United States about five years, later admitted to The Post that he was a lousy driver, and records show he racked up three moving violations for nine points on his license in 2011, including citations for running a red light and driving 65 mph in a 45-mph zone. Himon briefly worked for Arthur Cab in Queens after the accident — but was quickly fired after the company discovered he had lied during a job interview. “I asked if he had any accidents. He said no. He drove here two days,” a manager said. “The TLC called and asked if he was working for us, and then they told me.”

Mayor: Public Schools Open for Worship new


The New Journalism Supported by Lobbyists
From Capital NY Morning Email Today Sponsored by 21st Century Consumers A Lobby Group Pushing Online Wine Shoping in NY
**A message from 21st Century Consumers: 70% of consumers prefer to shop online. Wine shouldn’t be an exception. That’s why 21st Century Consumers, urges the State Liquor Authority to approve pending applications for online wine sales. Visit bit.ly/1e4cSQ0 and tell the state that you support online wine sales. **


>Media Ignores U.S. Attorney Plea to Investigate Corruption
Bharara: No Investigative Reporting Equals More Corruption


Bharara to Journalist
Investigate Stop Copying My Press Releases
"Rather than just covering the cases that my office and other offices are already bringing, figure out ways to break new ground and to cover new stories," Bharara said. "Groundbreaking corruption coverage is not just good copy, it's a path to good government." Bharara
The press has a role to play, Mr. Bharara said, noting that he is saddened by recent reports of newspaper closings and staff downsizing. "Rather than just covering the cases that my office and other offices are already bringing, figure out ways to break new ground and to cover new stories," he said. "Groundbreaking corruption coverage is not just good copy, it's a path to good government."


Maimonides Opens Sheepshead Bay Rehab Center

May 7, 2010

Mr. Stanley Brezenoff has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Continuum Health Partners, Inc., since July 7, 2003. Mr. Brezenoff served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Maimonides Medical Center since February 1995. He served as Deputy Mayor for Operations of the City of New York since 1984. He served as First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Brezenoff's career in New York City public service began in 1978 when he was appointed ...


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Chelsea Connor

Director of Communications at MirRam Group
New York, New York (Greater New York City Area)
Public Relations and Communications 
It is interesting to note that the Black Institute shares office space with the prominent consulting firm the Advance Group, which has deep ties to Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and WFP candidates generally. Until her recent departure from the Advance Group, both the firm and the Black Institute had the same spokeswoman, Chelsea Connor, who handled press inquiries for both organizations. The Advance Group, run by Scott Levenson, made headlines recently for its campaign work in the 2013 elections, during which the firm apparently took campaign dollars from individual campaigns as well as from outside groups supporting the same candidates through independent expenditures. Assurances that there was no improper coordination of resources have been met with skepticism by some observers (and possibly regulators).

No special prosecutor was selected until January 2012, when Brooklyn attorney Roger Adler, a Democrat, was appointed to head up the investigation.






In 2009 in addition to Mark-Viverito, who's running for re-election, the seven Council candidates with DFS contracts include: Danny Dromm, SJ Jung, Brad Lander, Jimmy Van Bramer, Debi Rose, Lynn Schulman, and Jumaane Williams. 
Four WFP candidates including de Blasio have sent a total of $42,467.30 to New York Citizens Services, Inc., a company that shares its Brooklyn address with ACORN, the WFP, and DFS. The ACORN-WFP canvas must be somewhat like "Springtime for Hitler," the play produced on Broadway by Max Bialystock; over subscribed. Funded with a mix of public funds, party funds, union funds and candidate payments, the Working Families Party is free to charged favored candidates ridiculously discounted rates for campaign services through their for-profit arm DFS. Not only are the two entities of WFP and DFS intertwined in this scheme, but at least six New York City council campaigns as well. It’s possible over $1 million is involved in this elaborate plan with at least $1.7 million in matching taxpayer dollars. And as stated in my previous post, even though the NY Secretary of State has WFP’s address listed on Third St. in Brooklyn, their website has it listed at 2 Nevins St. in Brooklyn.



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Oh angels, protect us! Whether you’re a good spirit or a cursed demon, whether you bring heavenly breezes or blasts of hell fire, whether your intentions are good or evil, you look so strange I want to talk to you. I’ll call you “Hamlet Senior,” “King,” “Father,” “royal Dane.” Answer me! Don’t drive me crazy with curiosity, but tell me why your church-buried bones have burst out of their coffin, and why your tomb








Jay Golub who is a consultant to Jeff Gottlieb congressional run to split the Jewish vote in the 6th, congressional race 2012  is president of GSP consultants. Candidate’s Late NY-6 Bid Brings Talk Of A Queens Democratic “Plant” [UPDATED] Attempting to siphon away Jewish votes from a rival candidate, Assemblyman Rory Lancman. Jeffrey Gottlieb, 70, a veteran figure in northeast Queens civic and political circles, began petitioning to get on the ballot six days ago, according to political consultant Jay Golub, who was hired to lead Gottlieb’s signature gathering efforts.GSP's Jay Golub ran the petition drive to get Jeff Gottlieb to get on the ballot to split the Jewish vote to help Meng.  Gottlieb dropped out after a NYP story came out that he set his apartment on fire.Cowering inferno. Gottlieb still works at the Board of Election. Newspaper gives vote of approval to paying politicalcandidates (New York World)

Golub A GOP Operative
 Golub GSP Consulting was $4,500 by the Ragusa' faction of the Queens GOP against the Haggerty faction. Steven Graves was running in the 25AD for State Committee as part of the Ragusa faction in 2009.  Steve Graves who was just caught shaking down City Council candidate Sonny Hahn to hire him in exchange for GOP Queens Boss Phil Ragusa endorsement, also worked as a consultant for GSP. He was also removed in handcuffs from the BOE after the FBI raided his office and computer for attempted bid rigging of the voting machine contract. Graves worked for the BOE as the Help America to Vote Act Representative.Because of his criminal record of sexual harassment which lost him his council seat, his name does not appear on candidate finance forms.  But everyone in Queens politics knows that Gallagher has a close working relationship with Nussbaum, GSP's Jay Gottleib and Vicky Schnepps the owners of the Queens Courier.  Some think the unnamed political consultant who Graves was trying to get $1.25 million for in his kickback BOE deal to deliver the voting machine contract was Gallagher. Robert  Hornak is Executive director of Queens County GOP also works for Galub's GSP.  His former boss and pal in the Queens GOP party was Vincent Tabone until he  arrested for trying to sell the GOP ballot line to Malcom Smith. Hornak also worked worked with Jay Golub and with accused BOE briber Steven Graves on the Victor Babb City Council Campaign.

A Convicted Sexual Abuser on  Golub Payroll
 Former Councilmember Gallagher, who stepped down in 2008 after pleading guilty to sexual-abuse charges stemming from accusations that he raped a woman in his Middle Village office, is listed on a city government database as an “additional lobbyist” with GSP Consulting. Republican Gallagher, a Republican, confirmed that he does consulting work with Golub and that he’s done consulting for Councilman Peter Koo (R-Queens) Also working for GSP is Dennis Gallager who the NYP calls the Perv pol lands Qns. lobbyist gig a Sunnyside-based firm run by Jay Golub, a dentist. Republican Gallagher, a Republican, confirmed that he does consulting work with Golub and that he’s done consulting for Councilman Peter Koo (R-Queens) but said he hasn’t done any work for Republicans in Queens “on a paid basis.” * Judge Throws Out Rape Indictment of New York City Councilman(NYT) From NYP: Gallagher, a Republican, confirmed that he does consulting work with Golub and that he’s done consulting for Councilman Peter Koo (R-Queens) but said he hasn’t done any work for Republicans in Queens “on a paid basis.” 

Golub Dirty Tricks Operation For Queens Organization
Michael Nussbaum Meng' campaign consultants also worked in the 2009 Peter Koo campaign with his company Multi Media.  Jay Golub ran the political operation.* A Close Tie Between the Gottlieb and Meng Campaigns | City & State


Milling A Lotto Winning Candidate
The main consultant on Sasson’s  campaign for State Senate turns out to have been Multi-Media owned by publisher Mike Nussbaum, which is now the main consultant on Meng’s campaign. During Sasson’s 2010 campaign for State Senate, Multi-Media was paid $143,877, according to campaign finance records, while Golub’s firm, GSP Consulting, was paid $57,500. True News has found out through auditor close to the Sasson campaign operation that Sasson hired Golub GSP the recommendation of Peter Koo. The problem with the Koo recommendation was that there is no record of payment by the Koo campaign of Golub or his lobbyist partner Dennis Gallagher.  There is a report that Gallagher and Golub GPS did lobbying work for Koo.

All of which is good reason to take a moment to give thanks to those in the city's trenches who have quietly gone about the tough, everyday work of remedying inequality, as well as those who have stood tall against abuses of power. Their deeds ennoble this city more than a trainload of the fatuous celebrities who soak up so much of the media's attentions. Late Voice writer Jack Newfield began this Thanksgiving tradition in 1976, in the depths of the city's last fiscal crisis, a time when the powerbrokers were again working overtime to remake New York in their own image. Newfield called his honor roll an ode to "heroes and heroines, the sung, and the unsung.


The idea comes from Jack Newfield, the late Voice writer who was beloved of lists: "Worst Judges" and "Worst Landlords" were two of his creations. He even offered an end-of-year rundown dubbed "Remember the Greediest." But he started publishing what he called his "Honor Roll" on Thanksgiving week back in 1976. He said it was his favorite task and it's not hard to see why. As much as our chief duty may be to smoke out wrongdoing, the bigger reward is always found in hailing those who do right. Here are just a few of those who richly deserve a Thanksgiving toast:

The UPKNYC event was hosted by the lobbying firm of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. Sid Davidoff, one of the firm’s partners — who was married at City Hall earlier this year in a ceremony officiated by the mayor
De Blasio Performs First Marriage at City Hall(NYO) between lobbyists Sid Davidoff. and Linda Stasi, a columnist for the Daily News.Sid Davidoff, an early de Blasio backer and longtime friend whom insiders view as one of the big winners of the 2013 elections. Has gotten the following contracts in 2014 to lobby the
mayor: Telebeam Telecommunications Corporation,   New York Cosmos LLC,  Association of Water and Sewer Excavators Inc.,  Madelaine Chocolate Novelties, Inc.,   AMERICAN RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES INC.,  Election Systems & Software, Inc.,  Touro College,  Abbott Laboratories,  Times Square District Management Association, Inc.,  Oxford Nursing Home, Inc.,  New York Community Bancorp, Inc.,   Marshall E Bloomfield ESQ,Palladia, Inc.,   RCN Telecom Services, LLC,  AbbVie, Inc,  2030 Astoria Developers, LLC.,   HUNTS POINT TERMINAL PRODUCE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION INC,  Taxicab Service Association Inc.,  Master Plumbers Council of the City of New York, Inc,  American Recycling LLC,  FIGLI DI SAN GENNARO, INC. ***Here is City Hall lobbyist Davidoff telling Earl Lewis on NY1 that the mayor will be OK


 Davidoff Cashing in Again  5-building complex OK'd for Queens waterfront (CrainsNY) The City Planning Department has given a preliminary thumbs-up to a proposed residential project set to include three towers, each with as many as 32 stories, plus a pair of six-floor buildings farther inland, with a total of 1,698 apartments. "This project will take what is presently an isolated and desolate, underutilized area and transform it into a vibrant mixed-use community," said Howard Weiss, chair of Davidoff Hutcher & Citron's land-use group, who is representing the developer. Astoria Cove, south of Astoria Park on a gritty waterfront peninsula, is being developed by 2030 Astoria Developers Group, which includes Queens-based Alma Realty. The property will include 295 units of affordable housing, a public school and a supermarket, plus a waterfront park that will be open to the public.
Lobbyists the New Permanent Government
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How Come Berlin Rosen Answered A NYT Reporter Question For City Hall?

Berlin Rosen Operates In the Dark Pools of Power and NYC Lobbyist
NYT Michael Powell - A couple of weeks back, I called the mayor’s press office and asked about Mr. de Blasio’s perhaps too-optimistic cost projections for prekindergarten.  Twenty minutes later, I heard from Dan Levitan of Berlin Rosen, which is the “it” P.R. firm of the city’s left and a close adviser to the mayor. He advised that I should study the mayor’s proposals carefully if I presumed to take “a skeptical look” at prekindergarten. I asked if Berlin Rosen had a contract to handle queries placed with the mayor’s office. He replied that he handled the “campaign” for pre-K. Lobbyists Search for Berlin Rosen * When Campaign Aides Are Lobbyists, Questions Mount - City Limits(City Limits) * 8 Lobbyists Consultants and Citizen United  * True News (The Bund): Dark Pools * City Hall's new 'in' crowd of lobbyists (CrainsNY) Lobbyists behind the campaigns of ascendant power brokers are now poised to cash in.*  The Perma-Campaign: For Bill de Blasio, the Race Never Ends(NYO)


More $$$ for Berlin Rosen?

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NYT Covers-Up Lobbyists Berlin Rosen and Shadow Government Out of Mayor's Slush Fund 1NY Story 
More to Come, Developing Story From True News
A video touting de Blasio’s pre-k program was sent from a City Hall address, under the city seal, to a list of de Blasio’s campaign supporters, among others, raising questions among legal experts and good-government groups about whether it was an appropriate form of official communication, The New York Times writes



WATCH: De Blasio administration rolls upbeat education video as pro-charter school forces converge

The mayor’s team released 'Every Single Child' to highlight de Blasio’s universal pre-K policy Thursday, before charter school supporters held a rally downtown.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/watch-team-de-blasio-rolls-upbeat-pre-k-education-video-article-1.1962021

But on Thursday, even before charter school proponents staged a big rally downtown, Mayor de Blasio’s message team had released a slick video counter-argument.

The release was part of a weeklong strategy of counter-messaging that included a policy speech Wednesday by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña
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Ed Koch


Ed Koch Mattered

Why They Mattered: Ed Koch(Politico) Dan Janison, resident wit of the New York City Hall press corps, once remarked that Edward Irving Koch’s most striking attribute was his propensity for underplaying his own genuine accomplishments at the expense of picking a fight or defending something indefensible. “The stuff he should be proud of, he isn’t, and the things he should be  ashamed of, he’s proud of,” said Janison. “He was unavoidable for comment.” The former mayor, who died at 88 last February, almost never talked about his heroic World War II service in combat against the Germans, or his transformational, long-term efforts to rehabilitate burnt-out apartment buildings in the South Bronx and Brooklyn, or his willingness to quietly listen to New Yorkers who accosted him on the Kew Gardens pavement to deliver finger-in-his-chest answers to his ubiquitous “How’m I doin?” query.
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Doug Biviano


You Have to Give Errol Louis and NY1 Credit for Journalist Principals 
In Defense of Louis and NY1
The Thrilla in Manilla (Brooklyn) NY1 debate last night was not a love fest between the host and the anti-lobbyists candidate Doug Biviano, but at least the station and host saw it as their journalists obligation to put the controversial candidate on news program. And that was not hard for the station that gives lobbyists and consultants free air time on a news program to help their clients and get new ones.  While the buzz last night was all about how the host threaten to cut the mike and end the debate with the very first question to assembly candidate Doug Biviano.  * Liu’s campaign sent a complaint to the state Board of Elections claiming the IDC Initiative violated state spending limits by sending thousands of glossy mailings to voters in recent days urging them to support state Sen. Tony Avella in September, the Daily News reports: http://goo.gl/RmiW4N

NY1's Inside City Hall let the real information that came out that effect the  voters of the 52AD and the rest of the city was the unchecked role of illegal PAC and campaign loop holes that seem to drive every campaign run by the WFP. Data and Field in 2009 and NYCLASS PAC in the mayor's race. Until that debate community groups have not held one debate and the local media has not covered the race.  A news desert in the most educated district in Brooklyn about who will lead them in the Assembly.  A district that does not want its LICH Hospital to close or it Library or to allow building in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Until the NY1 debate the 52AD had to rely on fake campaign mailing done by the same lobbyists who tried to fool them on their ER protection. The rest of the media and even the community leaders have block the voters of the Biviano district from leading the truth of the take over of their community by a new Tammany Hall made up of lobbyists and the special interests they work for.  This new machine unlike the old does not server the people but uses the voters to make money by pushing developments against their interests.*  NY1 and Their Corrupt Lobbyists Wise Guys

WFP Has Tuned Campaign Funding Into Anything Goes and Fake Campaign Mailings into An Art
NY1 allowed Biviano to changed WFP candidate Peter Sikora with Illegally coordinating the mayor's One NY PAC money with his campaign money. The PAC mailing told the community that the emergency room being built by the developer of luxury housing on the site of the closed LICH Hospital with meeting the communities health care needs. Doctors and community leaders have said the mailing are a total lie.  While NY1 allowed those charges to be aired over 100 other journalist in the city have opened Biviano's press releases with contained the illegal PAC charges and said nothing. Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Takes Over NYC Government


While NY1 Put Anti-Lobbyists Biviano On the Rest of Main Stream Media Has Remained Silent
The 100 Shameful NYC Journalists
We are left with candidate Sikora answer of the illegal coordination if the One NY PAC and his campaign are wild charges that are not true. Sikora his WFP backer know that nobody will stop or report about their illegal funding during the campaign.  The 100 Silent Journalist prove them true.  It was the CFB that fined the two council candidates months after the campaign. that used the Advance Group as their campaign manage and received funding from the PAC controlled by Advance NYCLASS. The CFB does not regulate state races. Besides the media not acting on Illegal PAC money in local races the DAs and AG have not said a word either.  

 The Changing Economic Has Forced the News Media to Abandoned Its Constitutional Role on Informing the Voters to Addicted to Lobbyists and Special Interests to Keep Publishing
Berlin Rosen who represents the mayor's PAC with sent out the misleading ER mailing and is Sikora's campaign manager also is a consultant to the AG, the Brooklyn District Attorney, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio. Berlin Rosen also represents many of the developers like Two Trees that place ads in newspapers. Today was the first time the Brooklyn Daily Eagle who broke the dark money LICH mailing  wrote about the Biviano campaign


The Only Ones Who Believe Dadey Is A Good Government Reformer Are the Journalists Who Cover His Bull Shit
A special award for silence has to go to Good Government fake Citizens Union Dick Dadey who lives in the 52AD for saying nothing about the illegal funding.*  The Privatization of the Tammany Hall Machine 



NYT, NYP and Daily News Silent On Local Impact of Citizens United on the City's Public Financing System

NYT's + Media's Blind Side The NYT has written several times on the national impact of Citizens United but never on the impact of that  special interests big money supreme court decision on the 2013 NYC election. The press is focused on  a preacher and 4-year-olds, while not reporting on how our city government was mugged by special interests Citizen United PACs and the lobbyists political consultants who do their bidding in the last election. Have these PACs made NYC government worse (if that is possible)? Have these PACs and lobbyist consultants committed crimes? stay tuned. The Line at the ‘Super PAC’ Trough(NYT) An unlimited source of cash is now a requirement for contested congressional races * Change the Rules on Secret Money(NYT Ed) * Liberal Donors Pollute Politics, Too(NYT Ed) *Campaign finance reformers take a hard line(TU) Campaign Reform and Media Cover Up of Citizens United On Local 2013 Election


NYP Takes Another Shot A Liu for the Parkside Group While It Sits On A Story of Illegal Funding By Berlin Rosen and the Mayor PAC 


Three Weeks Ago NYP Interviewed Candidate Biviano About the Illegal PAC Spending In His Race . . . NYP Joins the Cover-Up of Cover-Up of Members' Dark Money LICH Hospital Closing Mailing

State Senate candidate Liu in fund-raising high jinks(NYP) Scandal-scarred state Senate hopeful John Liu will take money from just about anyone. The former city comptroller and failed mayoral candidate, who faces a bruising Democratic primary battle Tuesday against Queens incumbent Tony Avella, has raked in $706,190 — but some of it is from shady sources. He accepted a donation from a group linked to Chinese organized crime, campaign filings show. And a nonprofit, the Fukien Benevolent Association, held a prohibited fund-raiser for Liu in June that raked in a reported $15,000. Liu’s campaign also received donations from two other tax-exempt groups, which are not allowed to make political contributions.


A Citizen Who Runs Against Developers, Lobbyists, and Political Bosses Finds Himself Removed By the New King of NYC 

Doug Biviano a candidate for assembly in Brooklyn's 52nd who is running on a platform against developers, lobbyists and political bosses finds himself according the the media as the man who never existed.  Both the Daily News and the NY Times did not list name in their endorsement.  NY1 tried to keep him out of their debate After Being Dissed by Errol Louis, Biviano Wins First Fight;Forces Invite to NY 1 52nd AD Debate (Brooklyn Heights Blog) Both the NY Post and Daily News interview Biviano in which he described to them his charges against lobbyist Berlin Rosen used illegal PAC money controlled by the mayor in the race to turn around the negatives of their candidate in the race over the closing of LICH Hospital. Cover-Up of Members' Dark Money LICH Mailing  Biviano forced silence by the media is a lot like the way King George treated the New York Colonest who talk about against the king who were removed from their homes and placed on British ships in the New York harbor.

The Media Has Become the Guard Dogs of the Real Estate Establishment
Biviano's message is the following: I am sickened how voters have lost control over the governing decisions in their own community that are closing LICH hospital, tearing down our library for luxury housing and Building Condos in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Control of our neighborhoods has been taken over by a Private Tammany Hall made up of lobbyists-campaign consultants and special interests who are not interested in serving the public but instead make money by tearing down our vital  institutions that save our lives, educate us and give us enjoyment. Even the nurses who worked the hardest to keep LICH Hospital open were doubled crossed by its own union who endorsed de Blasio's candidate in the race. The union is represented by Berlin Rosen. More About Berlin Rosen * Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Takes Over NYC Government

STEALING AN ELECTION 1982, 2014

32 years after Sydney Schanberg wrote in the Times about the Brooklyn Democratic Party's failed attempt to steal a congressional election it has become much easier to do. The attempt in 1982 was against the late Congressman Major Owens a man who entire career was to fight racism, economically unfair system and education equality.  Owens was reformer who battled the political power brokers, always opposing the machine controlled Brooklyn Democratic Party as much as he fought against the GOP in congress.  In 1982 Major Owens' opponent team created fraud at the Board of Election after he lost the primary by over 3000 votes.  They were creating fraud by forging signatures on the old voter-registration cards they were supposedly checking. Today's election stealing has more to do with big money, illegal PAC mailers and the break down of an objective press.  

Where a Brooklyn hack judge accepted Owens' opponent Vander L. Beatty teams forging and ordered a new election the NY Times and the Village Voice wrote about the fraud the machine judge was trying to pull off.  Today there is no real Village Voice and the NY Times and Daily News did not even list the name of a candidate Doug Biviano who like Congressman Owens is running against the against the system. Over 100 reporters read Biviano's charges that the mayor's PAC illegally mailed into the 52AD to help his opponent Sikora.  Not one of the reporters wrote anything about the Biviano charges or about the role Sikora's campaign mangers Berlin Rosen and the PAC spokesman Berlin Rosen played in a mailing that according to doctors misled the same community that Silora is running in about the level of protection the developers of luxury would provide in the ER they were building to replace the hospital. 

The Press Does Not Challenge A Reformer

Accepting the Support of A Political Boss
Sikora answer to Biviano's ER inadequacy charges were that they were wild accusations.  Not one report took him on.  In fact Nick Powell from City and State cut Biviano off when he was trying to ask Sikora if he thought the doctors who said the developers ER was inadequate.  The NYP and Daily News interviewed Biviano and never wrote a word. When word of Beatty's challenge to Owens got around before the internet, dozens of people from all over the city joined the effort the fight back the hack challenge to Owens.  Today interest groups like Save LICH Hospital, Defending the Libraries and groups opposing the building in the park or Atlantic Yards did nothing to inform their members about the interconnections between Berlin Rosen and the closing of LICH hospital and Forest City Ratner and Berlin Rosen in the closing of library that the Biviano campaign were pointing out to the voters.  Owens work his whole life to educate the voter about the corrupt political system.  Today's reformer and interest groups care more more about being connected to elected officials then educating the voters to help reform the system and more importantly who stands behind them.  How else could you explain the Brooklyn machines is supporting the same candidate as those that call themselves reformers. Jo Anne Simon supporter Brooklyn Boss Frank Seddio Law Partner Carone  represented Carl McCall and SUNY in the closing of LICH Hospital.  Yet Simon says in her campaign mailers that she is fighting to save the hospital.  Seddio made money on a deal that convicted state senator Carl Kruger was sent to jail for after taking bribes from a developer. Now Simon got his  partner involved in the negotiaton to stop the building in Brooklyn Bridge Park - Like putting the fox in the hen house  The Democratic County Organization, Norman Rosen, and the Politics of the 1989 D.A. Race * Al Sharpton’s Past Ties to Vote Fraud Taint His Fulminating *This Brave Congressman Taught Me How to Break News * Jim Sleeper: Treat, or Trick? Elections Officials, Beware!

 (This story will be Updated and expanded This Weekend)





Louis Does Some Repair Work to His Image After Biviano No DebateGate




Gov, democracy is not a game (NYDN)
Cuomo's debate ducking does a disservice to the public
You Have to Give Errol Louis and NY1 Credit for Journalist Principals 
In Defense of Louis and NY1
The Thrilla in Manilla (Brooklyn) NY1 debate last night was not a love fest between the host and the anti-lobbyists candidate Doug Biviano, but at least the station and host saw it as their journalists obligation to put the controversial candidate on news program. And that was not hard for the station that gives lobbyists and consultants free air time on a news program to help their clients and get new ones.  While the buzz last night was all about how the host threaten to cut the mike and end the debate with the very first question to assembly candidate Doug Biviano.  * Liu’s campaign sent a complaint to the state Board of Elections claiming the IDC Initiative violated state spending limits by sending thousands of glossy mailings to voters in recent days urging them to support state Sen. Tony Avella in September, the Daily News reports: http://goo.gl/RmiW4N

NY1's Inside City Hall let the real information that came out that effect the  voters of the 52AD and the rest of the city was the unchecked role of illegal PAC and campaign loop holes that seem to drive every campaign run by the WFP. Data and Field in 2009 and NYCLASS PAC in the mayor's race. Until that debate community groups have not held one debate and the local media has not covered the race.  A news desert in the most educated district in Brooklyn about who will lead them in the Assembly.  A district that does not want its LICH Hospital to close or it Library or to allow building in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Until the NY1 debate the 52AD had to rely on fake campaign mailing done by the same lobbyists who tried to fool them on their ER protection. The rest of the media and even the community leaders have block the voters of the Biviano district from leading the truth of the take over of their community by a new Tammany Hall made up of lobbyists and the special interests they work for.  This new machine unlike the old does not server the people but uses the voters to make money by pushing developments against their interests.*  NY1 and Their Corrupt Lobbyists Wise Guys

WFP Has Tuned Campaign Funding Into Anything Goes and Fake Campaign Mailings into An Art
NY1 allowed Biviano to changed WFP candidate Peter Sikora with Illegally coordinating the mayor's One NY PAC money with his campaign money. The PAC mailing told the community that the emergency room being built by the developer of luxury housing on the site of the closed LICH Hospital with meeting the communities health care needs. Doctors and community leaders have said the mailing are a total lie.  While NY1 allowed those charges to be aired over 100 other journalist in the city have opened Biviano's press releases with contained the illegal PAC charges and said nothing. Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Takes Over NYC Government


While NY1 Put Anti-Lobbyists Biviano On the Rest of Main Stream Media Has Remained Silent
The 100 Shameful NYC Journalists
We are left with candidate Sikora answer of the illegal coordination if the One NY PAC and his campaign are wild charges that are not true. Sikora his WFP backer know that nobody will stop or report about their illegal funding during the campaign.  The 100 Silent Journalist prove them true.  It was the CFB that fined the two council candidates months after the campaign. that used the Advance Group as their campaign manage and received funding from the PAC controlled by Advance NYCLASS. The CFB does not regulate state races. Besides the media not acting on Illegal PAC money in local races the DAs and AG have not said a word either.  





A Dark Money PAC Mail Berlin Rosen  Media Cover-Up

Daily News Leaves Out the Fact That Candidate Biviano Charged That the WFP Used the Mayor's One New York PAC Illegally to Help Sikora in the 52AD
A review of state campaign filings shows the Working Families Party has disclosed nothing about what it’s spending on Peter Sikora, an economist running against Jo Anne Simon, a lawyer, in the Democratic primary. The WFP’s Peter Sikora, an economist, and Jo Anne Simon, an attorney, are tangling in the September Democratic primary for the slot being vacated by Joan Millman. A review of state campaign filings shows the party has disclosed nothing about what it’s spent on Sikora.* Democratic candidates spar on NY1 in Brooklyn Assembly district debate. (NY1)

A Candidate for the 52AD Not Mentioned in the Daily News Article Doug Biviano, Charged That the WFP Candidate and His Consultant Berlin Rosen Was Using Illegal PAC Money 3 Weeks Ago
Berlin Rosen who works for Sikora and the PAC One NY which he use to send out to the voters of the district what the Brooklyn Eagle called a dark money mailing, claiming the closed LICH hospital developer would build an emergency room that would meet the community’s health care needs.  Doctors and community leader have called that claim an outright lie. 



Biviano chaged that Sikora and his campaign consultant Berlin Rosen are coverinMitzi Carroll walking with Doug Biviano at LICHg-up the promise that he, the mayor and other local elected officials made during the 2013 campaign to keep LICH a full service hospital. In 2013, Sikora worked with his and de Blasio’s campaign consultant Jonathan Rosen (of Berlin Rosen) to gain votes by having the mayor arrested as part of a protest demand to keep LICH a full service hospital. Many of the voters in the 52AD resent Sikora because of his connection to the de Blasio arrest. The dark money PAC mailing in July was intended to repair both the mayor's and Sikora's image in the assembly district.  Both the Daily News and the Brooklyn Heights Blog reported that Sikora was arrested with the mayor. As former mayoral candidate Sal Albanese put it, team de Blasio used the shut hospital as an election prop in the mayoral campaign.



How Campaign Are Controlled and Elect People Who Don't Represent the  People in the District

A Case Study In the Dysfunctional Campaign System That the Main Stream Media Never Covers. But A Blogger Has 
 "Everyone understands that our campaign system is dysfunctional and that big special interests drive it, but everyone expects the media to be the equalizer, exposing the truth when it comes to campaign flyers full of lies and fake promises intended to get candidates elected.  My campaign against the special interests and broken campaign system is not well funded.  When NY1 blocked me from appearing they were cutting off one of the few chances I have to communicate with the voters of my district.  And NY1 is not the only member of the media not covering me.  Both the Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn Daily Eagle have not done a story about me or the campaign.  The media's role is to inform voters about the real intentions of candidates.  Apparently the media does not see themselves in the role John Peter Zenger, Thomas Pain and Thomas Jefferson saw, as educators of the public." decried Biviano.


Hero's Died Giving Us the Rights to Control Our Government . . . Those Rights Are Being Taken Away By Lobbyists and Special Interests That Have Taken Over Our Election System

Biviano at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Green Park Where 12,000 Courageous American Who Spoke Out Against the King are Buried 

When you have over 60% of the voters not know who the AG is, not know what the Moreland commission is, an the loss of Speaker Quinn after she was endorsed by all three paper shows that the people of New York are not enlightened.  Election and no long a contest of what is best for the community but who has the most money to send out mailers prepared by spin doctors who know how to fool the voters with mailers and TV Ads.  These spin doctors are mostly lobbyists making up a new  private Tammany Hall that functions very different from the old political boss led Tammany Hall.  The old Tammany gain voters and power by delivering services and protecting the poor.  The new private Tammany spends money to hire spin doctors to elect candidates to gain power to make money from government, often hurting the same voters who elected their puppet candidates, by closing their libraries and hospitals. The lobbyists new private Tammany Hall is really a system that legalized and replaced bribery.



de Blasio Slush Fund 1NY Update . . .  Where the $$ Comes From . . . BHA Debunks Letter About Saving the Hospital and NYT Spins More Crap to Protect Mayor






Does the NYT Think Than An Emergency Room That Does Not Even Treat Heart Attacks is A de Blasio Achievement?

Installation cost the city plenty, but there’s no monitoring





When residents of several public housing complexes learned three years ago that new closed circuit cameras would be installed in their lobbies and elevators, they were optimistic that safety in their buildings would greatly improve.
Three years later, however, residents of one complex say that the New York City Housing Authority has so badly mismanaged the project that they feel no safer now than they did before the cameras were installed.

Moore Houses on East 149th St. near St. Mary’s Park was one of five local complexes that received the cameras, electronic keys and mechanical door locks as part of an initiative to take a bite out of crime, thanks to a $3.2 million allocation from City Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo in 2011.
But residents contend that NYCHA has never assigned anyone to watch a bank of monitors that the cameras’  images are transmitted to, on the ground floor of one of Moore’s four residential buildings. When they have complained to housing officials that the expensive cameras are going to waste, they say the agency has told them it lacks the manpower to oversee the project.
Residents have urged NYCHA to allow tenants themselves to oversee the monitors, but housing officials have declined.
- See more at: http://www.motthavenherald.com/2014/07/08/safety-cameras-bust-say-nycha-tenants/#sthash.5zfURTPW.dpuf
Safety cameras are a bust, say NYCHA tenants

"To judge from its expenditures, One New York’s purpose seems to be less to push for Mr. de Blasio’s proposals than to make sure that he gets credit for his 




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