Allegations that New York City Councilmembers Elizabeth Crowley (D-Maspeth) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) were campaigning on the day before the September Democratic Party primary on school property have been referred to the Office of Special Investigations of the New York City Department of Education. Information of the referral was provided to Progress Queens by a source. According to Chancellor's Regulation D-130, "no candidate for public office, including an elected official seeking reelection, may visit any Department of Education school building during the 60 calendar days prior to a primary and/or election," except in accordance with some exceptions.
In particular, Chancellor's Regulation D-130 generally prohibits the use of school property for electioneering work during after-school hours. In a prior report, Progress Queens published a photograph showing Councilmember Van Bramer standing next to Councilmember Crowley, who was hiding behind a gentleman. The officials were standing on the playground of Queens P.S. 229. According to information received by Progress Queens, the photograph of Councilmembers Crowley and Van Bramer was taken after children were let out of class on Monday, 11 September. The only exceptions to the general prohibition of after-school use of school property for electioneering work would be for candidate forums, provided, however, that all candidates would have been invited for the forum, or if public officials were engaged in use of public school property in a manner that was directly related to their official public duties and responsibilities.
After publication of the prior report by Progress Queens, a representative of Councilmember Crowley's committee to reelect declined an opportunity to issue a statement to Progress Queens in response to the prior report. Councilmember Van Bramer has not answered prior requests for interviews, and he did not immediately answer a request for comment for this report.
13 comments:
Joe Teflon Crowley will protect them.
Yeah sure good luck with THAT, they'll both apologize for their error and swear it won't happen again (Until next time)
The Democrat Machine are going to regret their unscrupulous behavior and donor coddling. Can't wait for the chickens to come home to roost after November.
Back door politics Van Bramer NEEDS to be fully scoped!
These Queens Democratic Machine thugs do as they please and will continue to do as they please because the majority of Queens voters are morons.
Considering the crap they do routinely, this looks pretty minor. Is that all we can find? How can we not get these jerks on election fraud (Vallone) but will try to get them on being in a school playground?
>The Democrat Machine are going to regret their unscrupulous behavior and donor coddling. Can't wait for the chickens to come home to roost after November.
Just like they did in the primaries?
>The Democrat Machine are going to regret their unscrupulous behavior and donor coddling. Can't wait for the chickens to come home to roost after November.
Just like they did in the primaries?
PRIMARIES? NO SWEAT. TRUTH HAS LEAD FEET. ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.
Remember when you'd watch a 70's cop show.. the main character would wreck his car, ask for a replacement and he'd be told there are no more in the car pool.
Well, I can assure you that doesn't happen in Queens. Go look at the 58th St. NYPD fleet service building. They have more vehicles sitting there on the upper deck parking lot, in surrounding buildings, parked on the street, hidden in storage beneath the BQE..and every few months, new ones show up.
Alas, they are uneducated!
The machine will continue to rule in QueensnevausrTHIS IS NOT A REPIBLICAN borough. It is a borough of immigrant neighborhoods AND they vote Democrat.
Don't see any solid evidence they were electioneering, especially since Van Bramer is not in that district. They can claim "they were getting feedback of what issues they would like addressed". I don't see any handouts.
How can the website claim she 'was hiding' behind that guy? You had me on your side until that line.
It doesn't say you can't electioneer. It says they can't VISIT. Clearly their presence is a violation of that law.
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