Last November, when many of Manhattan’s skyscrapers sat half-empty, Gov. Kathy Hochul made a high-stakes wager on New York City’s commercial real estate industry: She vowed to move ahead with a marquee plan to restore Pennsylvania Station and erect new office towers around it.
For Manhattan’s mega-rich real estate developers, the announcement signaled Ms. Hochul’s support for the kind of grand projects that foretell a windfall, and some found a concrete way of showing their approval to the new governor.
In the weeks that followed, Ms. Hochul’s campaign received checks for $69,700, the legal limit, from some of the city’s biggest real estate executives, including Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust, which is positioned to directly benefit from the project that he once called a “Promised Land.” Other checks trickled in from developers, builders, engineers and even some who opposed it.
The campaign contributions flowed from a broader spigot of cash turned on last fall by New York’s varied special interests, from real estate and building trades to hospitals, labor unions and gaming companies, directed toward Ms. Hochul’s election campaign.
The donations included $200,000 in checks from the family behind a major construction firm with millions in state contracts, $47,000 that was tied to a gaming giant leaning on the state to expand legal gambling, and $41,000 traced back to a single Albany lobbyist.
The funds helped Ms. Hochul, a moderate Democrat who unexpectedly ascended to office last August, assemble a record-setting $21.6 million war chest, and claim a steep advantage heading into June’s Democratic primary and November’s general election.
People and industries with financial interests before the state have long been reliable donors to top elected officials, showering them with money that, at times, can pose ethical and legal problems.
12 comments:
Face it, we're going to be stuck with Herr Hochul, who will give Gov. Twitmer of Michigan and that psychopath from Oregon a run for the money as "Stupidest governor in America."
Welll, according to right wing nuts and their corrupt Supreme Court, corporations are people and can spend their money as they like.
This hick is attempting to ram some diversity train line between Bayridge, Brownsville, Ridgewood, Glendale/Middle Village also.
Get this, She been calling it an "infer structure improvement"
Who the hell from Ridgewood Middle Village or Glendale wants to go to Brownsville?
Such a cancer will wipe out the last decent neighborhoods & schools in Queens
-Ned
www.nra.org
She's doing a great job. It's not her fault that the corrupt Supreme Court right wing-nuts decided that corporations are people too. These "Corpo-Humans" or whatever label the right want to give them can express their "God" given freedoms to give their cash to whatever politician they want.
"And on the sixth day, right after lunch and just before the afternoon coffee break, God Created Corporations. Similar to people in every way, except with lots more $$$$$. Amen". (The Right Wing-Nut Bible)
She's doing a great job. It's not her fault that the corrupt Supreme Court right wing-nuts decided that corporations are people too. These "Corpo-Humans" or whatever label the right want to give them can express their "God" given freedoms to give their cash to whatever politician they want.
Keep trying, but you and your CCP boss handsomely profit from the rotten corporate system.
You enjoy your Facebook, Google and indoctrination via CNN.
So basically you are biting the hand that feeds you.
Keep reading the Manifesto commie.
"She's doing a great job." Back on the meds boy...
When the Founding Fathers created this country, they created a checks and balances system where one branch of government checks the power of the other. It's a brilliant system. What they failed to foresee was that the press would become almost the fourth branch of government-it uses the first amendment to check the powers of the government, but it has no check on itself. We have a completely out of control press set on furthering its own agenda by manipulating stories, and thus the American people. It is very scary and unless it gets fixed by having the American people figure out they are being duped and revolt against it, I fear it could be the downfall of our great country.
She's a nobody and a nothing. These types will soon be lost to the trash-bin of history, but will do incredible damage to our society on the way out to the curb.
@Ned
Maybe the nice folks in Brownsville might like to go to Middle Village or Glendale?
@"Keep trying, but you and your CCP boss handsomely profit from the rotten corporate system."
Take a hike Marxist stooge!
GTA don't poke Ned he is on secret double probation.
❝The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for corporations and the rich, while cutting social service programs for the poor. They project economic growth on the basis of myth. Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages. Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles. Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend that despotism is democracy. Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics. Idiot professors, 'experts,' and 'specialists' busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers. Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
There is a familiar checklist for extinction and we are ticking off every item on it.
The idiots know only one word——'more.' They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds. They see the state as a projection of their vanity. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine, Pahlavi and Soviet dynasties ALL crumbled because of the audacious whims and intolerant extremist obsessions of ruling idiots, ALL of whom SO ORDERED laws that they created to willfully exploit society to obscenely enrich themselves by UNJUST ENRICHMENT.❞ ——Excerpt from America: 'The Farewell Tour,' Chris Hedges
https://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/more-people-leaving-new-york-fewer-moving-study?utm
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