As Mayor Bill de Blasio’s staff first learned to navigate the city’s vast bureaucracy, they sought regular help from an eager lobbying firm that had much to gain in return.
Commissioners and employees across city agencies solicited the advice of the firm Capalino + Company to shape policy, raise funds for events and answer technical questions on myriad aspects of municipal government, according to thousands of pages of emails reviewed by POLITICO New York.
The emails, obtained through a records request, show Capalino's stable of lobbyists was so entrenched in the minutiae of de Blasio's first term, they formed an unofficial, additional layer of government — sometimes instructing staffers how to do their jobs — all while advancing the interests of their paying clients.
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At least someone is...
Capalino is a guy with a face meant for punching.
Can't wait for the Berlin Rosen files. That's going to be a scream.
If anything, this shows not only pay for play and a blatant shadow government (Preet was right), but the total stupidity of this corrupt mayor his incapability to come up with original ideas and governing that he needs so many fiends to do it for him.
No shitSherlock....just like they run out federal and state governments. Lobbyists should be required to wear orange day glow top hats do that they might easily be identified. I will spring for Paul Vallone's orange chapeau. He lobbies for the real estate development industry.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/24/lobbying-firm-makes-millions-on-political-union-ties/
NO SHIT SHERLOCK !!
Preet let him go scott free. So much for the integrity of those who claim to be the protectors of our law. Preet spat on it and on us, in trying to protect his party and his own political future. What a catastrophic and disappointing choice, yet it revealed his true character. What he fails to see though is that history is taking copious notes, for all the future to see.
City Hall and Albany have created such a hostile, unresponsive environment that it's actually causing violence and anarchy in the streets. What both angers and saddens me at the same time is how these corrupt, arrogant thieves continue to wear the American flag pinned to their oily lapels, while demonstrating every, daily, pathological, treasonous, traitorous and tyrannical action to destroy flag, country and Constitution, with a vengeful impunity that is unprecedented, to date——all in the name of two incurable illnesses called 'NAKED GREED' and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), for more undeserved, unearned power, privilege and arrogant power grabs for which everyone else continues, in perpetuity, to pay a soul-crushing price.
There IS no honest, ethical leadership that leads by example, and the entrenched, establishment-rigged politicians themselves are okay with that (because they are all corporate obedient henchmen, securing their taxpayer funded salaries that demands them to look the other way on the endless corruption, graft and greed), and short of a SECOND, bloody American revolution, there is nothing that anyone can do about it——especially when Queens Borough Hall, the Board of Elections, the Department of Investigations——and straight up to a feckless, present day City Hall (that is far worse than Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall, more than 100 years ago), are all completely on board with the openly practiced graft that is evident, right through to the top of state government itself (Albany), where lobbyists and corporate tyranny control EVERY single publicly elected office, in which they now completely DEVALUE honesty——to pathologically high treasonous, traitorous and tyrannical effect. This is how democracy free, Third World countries and Banana Republics are run, with impunity.
Fascism has two fundamental tenets: Those who control the levers of economic production, which is the most important to the success of a country, and that those who maintain Tenet Number One for which all major policy decisions are ultimately made.
The rest of fascism is figuring out how to achieve one's goals IN SPITE of the fact that people will always revolt against tyranny. This should sufficiently explain both German and American history, in one fell swoop.
That's why New York City's worst, recalcitrant and MOST corrupt mayor misbehaves with such unprecedented arrogance and confidence (to keep the press in a PEN, and behind ropes, no less, when they attempt to ask questions——not the way REAL journalists used to behave like!), and why he continually lies to We, the People, with impunity.
Then, when the empowered idiot gets caught in those pitiful lies, as he did recently when lying again to the press about a delayed train in Brooklyn that he said was experiencing technical problems, when it was actually delayed because of his own public relations campaign hold up, he continues to rely on his spokesliar, Eric Phillips to compound de Blasio's lies with MORE lies (unconscionable!), to the point where he even had the MTA lying FOR him when they repeated his false story of train delays over their own PA system, to which he finally responded to the free press, ❝I don't care.❞ Ladies and gentlemen of Queens Crap: That is what openly practiced government tyranny and anarchy look like!
❝Politicians are the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.❞ —Frank Zappa
A-B-C-D: Anybody But Comrade (Bill) de Blasio (and I mean ANYBODY)!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ycuw9Cvh6W4
https://media0.giphy.com/media/26AHP7PeRfcYZvn7q/giphy.gif
Fascism has two fundamental tenets: Those who control the levers of economic production, which is the most important to the success of a country, and that those who maintain Tenet Number One for which all major policy decisions are ultimately made.
The rest of fascism is figuring out how to achieve one's goals IN SPITE of the fact that people will always revolt against tyranny. This should sufficiently explain both German and American history, in one fell swoop.
That's why Bill de Blasio misbehaves with such unprecedented arrogance and confidence (to keep the press in a PEN, and behind ropes, no less, when they attempt to ask questions——not the way REAL journalists used to behave like!), and why he continually lies to We, the People, with impunity. Then, when the empowered idiot gets caught in those pitiful lies, as he did recently when lying again to the press about a delayed train in Brooklyn that he said was experiencing technical problems, when it was actually delayed because of his own public relations campaign hold up, he continues to rely on his spokesliar, Eric Phillips to compound de Blasio's lies with MORE lies (unconscionable!), to the point where he even had the MTA lying FOR him when they repeated his false story of train delays, to which he finally responded to the free press, ❝I don't care.❞ Ladies and gentlemen of Queens Crap: That is what openly practiced government tyranny and anarchy look like!
❝Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt.❞ —Mahatma Gandhi (And, as for New York State, it's both lawless AND corrupt!)
❝Politicians are the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.❞ —Frank Zappa
A-B-C-D: Anybody But Comrade (Bill) de Blasio (and I mean ANYBODY)!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ycuw9Cvh6W4
https://media0.giphy.com/media/26AHP7PeRfcYZvn7q/giphy.gif
Seriously send this dipshit back to Brooklyn. Is their one deBlasio supporter who reads this blog that can put together a coherent sentence why this turd deserves a second term?
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