nyc: billionaire mayor bloomberg dispenses bribes

[Hannah Bell]

Sunday, August 15, 2010
Bloomberg Bribed Sharpton On Term Limits: More sleazy quid pro quo from Mayor Moneybags:


The Rev. Al Sharpton finally disagreed with Mayor Bloomberg a week ago on how to change elections in the city. It was a long time coming...On Aug. 7, Sharpton said he would fight any push to make city elections nonpartisan - which Bloomberg hoped to do this fall. His public stand helped kill the idea. Barely 48 hours later, Bloomberg pulled the plug.

Two years earlier, though, Sharpton stayed mum while Bloomberg rammed through a law to extend term limits so he could run again. Why? Perhaps because, as the city was convulsed over term limits, Sharpton's National Action Network got a $110,000 grant from a brand-new nonprofit funded by Bloomberg...

Today's Daily News story comes just one week after the NY Times story that revealed how Bloomberg bribed charities to support his illegal third term...


http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/08/bloomberg-bribed-sharpton-on-term.html

[Starry Messenger]

1. recommend.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Yea I disagreed with Bloombergs term limitations stunt.

But he got the mosque thing right.

[MattBaggins]

3. I am strongly opposed to term limits as I believe people have the right

to vote for whomever they choose; but Bloomberg was as sneaky and crooked as any snake in violating NYC law.

He is a crook.

[ThomCat]

4. It is well known that Bloomberg silences anyone who dares

to criticize him.

The only person who would DARE to run against him for mayor when he ran for his third term was a FRIEND of his. It was an obvious set up. The friend ran such a tepid campaign, saying nice things about Bloomberg, people wondered whose campaign he was running.

Anyone in NY politics who disagrees with Bloomberg finds it difficult to get anyone in business in NY to sign new contracts with them. They start losing a LOT of money very quickly until they do whatever it takes to kiss Bloomberg's ass, give whatever gifts or concessions it takes, and get back on his good side. So of course anyone running against him is a friend doing it only as a favor.

Bloomberg won in a landslide, as expected, and the two are still friends. He and Klein are still destroying the teacher's unions and the public schools as quickly as they can, turning education into a profit center for their wealthy friends. He is selling of every little chunk of the city he can manage, piece by piece, to any wealthy friend or associate who says he can turn a good profit.

Does anyone seriously think that Bloomberg won't see some kind of favors, thanks yous, or rewards for this when he gets out of office? Does anyone seriously think he hasn't been stacking offices with people loyal to him who will make sure he can profit off of the city for years to come even when he is no longer the mayor?

He has turned this city and our city budget into his private investment vehicle and ATM all his wealthy friends, and when he is done I'm sure it will be an investment vehicle and ATM for him too. :GRR:

Bribing charities should come as no surprise. This is just parr for the course.

[Subdivisions]

7. And there you are, millions of you, knowing this full well and letting him get away with it. n/t

[ThomCat]

8. Unfortunately, millioins don't.

The local papers won't print anything significantly bad about him. Scandals get buried. He gets immediate cover, and his denials get treated is instantly credible and absolute truth. I'm sure he has them intimidated, but who knows what the threats are. :shrug:

Just being so immensely rich seems to make him automatically credible in most people's eyes. "Anyone that rich can't be wrong." "Anyone that rich must know what he's talking about." "Anyone that rich must know more than you or me."

Those kinds of beliefs are total BS, but a lot of people fall for it.

And of course, just being rich buys a lot of allies, lackies, wannabe friends, admirers, and fans.

I think anyone that immensely wealthy could murder someone live on TV and get way with it, probably more popular afterward, as long as he is a white man and the victim was a minority.

[Hannah Bell]

9. interesting. how did he get re-elected?

[ThomCat]

10. His opponent ran a token campain,

with almost no ads and almost no campaigning. It was almost as if Bloomberg was running unopposed.

When an incumbent is running unopposed, he's going to win.

Despite everything, Bloomberg is very popular with many people.

Many people admire anyone rich. The more corrupt a rich person is, the more admirable. Some people want to be like that. Just like there are many people who deeply admire anything mob related for the same reason. That's big here in the metro-NY area.

The Jewish community is huge in NYC, and has a lot of influence. He polls pretty well in the Jewish community. That keeps his numbers from so bad.

If the big bosses wanted him elected, that's influential. It's supposed to be illegal to lobby employees on who to vote for, but only a fool thinks it doesn't happen. In a place like NY where so many executives can be concentrated in so many towers, you can get a get a lot of influence going on.

I worked as a Corporate Management Consultant for 15 years until disability took me out, so I was in and out of a lot of corporate offices dealing with a lot of staff people throughout Manhattan. It was interesting to see how often some staff people would have so much faith in how brilliant their bosses were and take whatever opinions they had as gospel. That kind of admiration can easily be exploited.

And of course, during an election people bite the bullet and vote for the one they think is the lessor or two evils regardless of what they think. It's as simple as that. If the other guy is a friend who is deliberately running a half-assed campaign, intending to look like a loser, intending to lose, then Bloomberg is going to win.

[Hannah Bell]

11. thanks.

[virginia mountainman]

5. Bloomberg has a well know history of lies and deceit, bribery is no surprise

The way he lies and distorts the truth with his anti-civil liberties group "Mayor's against illegal guns", it is no shock to me that he has other "dirty dealings" aswell.

[Rex]

6. Make billions by sprinkling hundreds of thousands on key groups.

What a business model! And the term limit increase...what an amazing business man, did he ever run AIG or Enron?

[Odin2005]

12. Bloomberg is the kind of person that deserves the guillotine.