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Title: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: mountaineer on October 18, 2019, 01:38:28 pm: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Julia Marsh
October 17, 2019 | 6:04pm
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Mayor Bill de Blasio regularly used his City Hall staff to boost his 2017 reelection bid while state and federal authorities were investigating his campaign fundraising practices, according to internal emails released Thursday.

City rules prevent public employees from using their official time for political purposes. Yet over 205 pages of emails between the mayor and his two sets of staff, obtained through a Freedom of Information request and first reported by the Daily News, show that they routinely flouted those rules. ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/internal-emails-reveal-de-blasio-had-city-hall-staff-help-with-re-election-bid/)

The question, of course, is whether there will be consequences for Big Bill Wilhelm.
Title: Re: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: PeteS in CA on October 18, 2019, 01:41:47 pm: I won't be looking like a Smurf (from holding my breath).
Title: Re: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: Gefn on October 18, 2019, 11:29:47 pm: Quote from: PeteS in CA on October 18, 2019, 01:41:47 pm
I won't be looking like a Smurf (from holding my breath).

Which smurf? Papa? Brainy? Dopey? Was there a dopey smurf? Just call me Smurfette.
Title: Re: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: mountaineer on October 18, 2019, 11:50:03 pm: This guy is so pathetic. Way to go , Noo Yawkers.
Title: Re: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: 240B on October 19, 2019, 12:00:53 am: Quote from: mountaineer on October 18, 2019, 01:38:28 pm
Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Julia Marsh
October 17, 2019 | 6:04pmFull story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/17/internal-emails-reveal-de-blasio-had-city-hall-staff-help-with-re-election-bid/)

The question, of course, is whether there will be consequences for Big Bill Wilhelm.
Nope. Nothing will happen. Laws, rules, ethics, do not apply to Democrats. And even when they are found so called 'guilty' they are usually only censured and not punished. Laws, rules, and ethics only apply to Republicans in the American media and legal systems.
Title: Re: Internal emails reveal de Blasio had City Hall staff help with reelection bid
Post by: mountaineer on October 20, 2019, 12:38:20 pm: Meanwhile ...
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The dirty bottom line on de Blasioâ€™s pathetic presidential bid
By Post Editorial Board
October 18, 2019

Even Mayor de Blasioâ€™s pals at Hot 97 are laughing at his now-defunct presidential campaign, and for good reason: The latest fund-raising numbers show what a complete joke it was.

He only pulled in $333,045 over the last three months of his four-month bid, after raising $1.1 million in the first six weeks.

And at least three-quarters of his cash came from big donors â€” most of them, people plainly looking for favors from city government, or repaying de Blasio for favors already received.

That includes the local hotel industry and labor union, the Hotel Trades Council â€” big beneficiaries of the mayorâ€™s war on Airbnb. ...
More at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/18/the-dirty-bottom-line-on-de-blasios-pathetic-presidential-bid/)