[NYPOST] City Hall wants folks to believe that its deal for a 36-story luxury condo in Brooklyn Heights was strictly on the up and up. But emails newly obtained by The Post suggest it was every bit as seedy as other notorious deals on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s watch.
The emails ‐ unveiled thanks to the Freedom of Information laws ‐ show Hudson Cos. CEO David Kramer had at least two conversations with Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen before the city’s Economic Development Corp., which reports to her, and the Brooklyn Public Library, which owned the site, awarded the project to his company.
State law bars contacts between firms and officials during bidding competitions to prevent favoritism or even the appearance of it.
But that clearly didn’t happen here: Kramer and city officials admit he spoke to Glen in March and August of 2014, before the competition ended in September. And days after Hudson won the bid, Kramer thanked Glen, calling her "the expeditor."
"Ever since our call in August, it feels like momentum finally started happening." He was "happy" the process ended and "quite pleased with the outcome." (No doubt.)
Both Kramer and officials insist the early contacts were harmless reminders that bidders hoped to wrap things up. Glen "never took a side in who won," insists City Hall spokeswoman Jane Meyer.
But Kramer is a donor and longtime pal of Mayor de Blasio. And his $52 million offer to buy the Brooklyn library site wasn’t the highest bid. Hudson also got $10 million from a Goldman Sachs unit Glen once oversaw.
Worse, the deal fits a pattern of de Blasio donors getting favorable treatment: Who can forget City Hall’s OK for a nursing home to be turned into condos, reaping the developer a $72 million windfall? Or the favors for fat cats and unions that gave handsomely to the mayor’s campaign and his Campaign for One New York slush fund?
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[NYPOST] An Upper East Side Republican club was vandalized overnight ‐ with a brick thrown through its window, two anarchy symbols scrawled on its front door and the locks glued, authorities said Friday.
The attack at the Metropolitan Republican Club on East 83rd Street near Lexington Avenue appeared to be at least partly tied to the scheduled appearance of right-wing provocateur Gavin McInnes at the club Friday night.
McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Media, heads a right-wing group called the Proud Boys, which has been characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A note found at the club after the vandalism attack read in part, "The Metropolitan Republican Club chose to invite a hipster-fascist ...anybody not a leftist... clown to dance for them, content to revel in their treachery against humanity."
But the note also ripped the party in general.
"Tonight, we put the Republican Party on notice, in defiance to the policy of mass misery they have championed," it read. "The US government has established concentration camps around the country for Latino people, shamelessly murders black people, and continues its war machine that has slaughtered Moslem people with impunity for decades."
At a presser in front of the club Friday afternoon, New York GOP leaders fumed about the vandalism.
"This is terrorism," said state Senate candidate Pete Holmberg. "The people in this district are civil. These people came from outside.
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There's a Republican Club in NYC? Who would have guessed?
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democrat witches and cult members will meet in Brooklyn on Saturday to hex Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The hex will also include all rapists and the patriarchy.
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...Do you think if I asked nicely, they'd throw in a hex for whoever's playing Cleveland on Sunday?
Mike
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The ONLY witch who could cast a dangerous spell on anyone was Morticia. Just looking at Morticia would curse your marriage. Green envy oooozed out of every pore when I think that cold hearted Gomez won her willowy hand in mortal matrimony.
The Supreme, black robbed Kavanaugh has no need to worry, because ladies, none of you are MORTICIA!
Signed, Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365
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Normally, I would tell targets not to reflect the hex back on the senders seven-fold, since that causes problems that need fixing later on when they come crawling to Jesus on the sawdust trail.
For THIS bunch, I’m tempted to reflect it back seventy times seven.
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Will Head Witch Hillary be there? Will coven members Wookie, DiFi, etc be there?
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#4 - Mike K. That'd be the Dean Spanos *spit* owned now LA Chargers. I'm with ya on that
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Not sure why anyone who is paying attention is a still watching the No Firearms League...
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I can't wait for ceremony to go wrong so the Dark One's minions come through the black hole and take the participants back to wherever.
Oh, the merriment ...
Only NOW?? "At her request"? It should've been publicly yanked in 2016
[Breitbart] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has relinquished her security clearance over her handling of sensitive information stored on a private email server, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Cheryl Mills, a former top Clinton aide, along with four additional individuals, no longer have clearance, committee chairman Chuck Grassley said Friday afternoon. The Washington Times reports Clinton’s access to secret information "expired at the end of August," while the four other "research assistants," the names of which were redacted in a letter from the State Department, had their clearances terminated September 20.
The FBI began investigating the handling of classified material on Clinton’s private email server shortly after she announced her bid in April 2015. The issue had dogged Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, greatly contributing to the questions a majority of Americans have about her honesty and trustworthiness.
Still, Clinton had appeared to be heading for a sweeping victory over rival Donald Trump before Comey’s first letter to lawmakers, in which he stressed the FBI could not yet assess "whether or not this material may be significant," or how long it might take to run down the new investigative leads.
The review involved material found on a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Democrat congressman and estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin. While Comey was vague in his initial description of the inquiry, he said Sunday that the FBI reviewed communications "to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state."
Based on such review, Comey told lawmakers the FBI was not changing the conclusion it reached this summer. Then, Comey said, "no reasonable prosecutor" would recommend Clinton face criminal charges for using a private email system while at the State Department.
In June of this year, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a stinging rebuke to the FBI for its handling of the Clinton email investigation. The watchdog official’s report labeled Comey "insubordinate" and said his actions during the probe were "extraordinary." However, the report did not find evidence that Comey was motivated by political bias or preference in his decisions to absolve Clinton.
Further, the report criticized Comey for publicly announcing his recommendation against criminal charges for Clinton. It also faults him for alerting Congress days before the 2016 election that the investigation was being reopened because of newly discovered emails.
Representatives for Clinton did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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This is the slap on the wrist punishment. This should have been the bare minimum in 2016. She should be in prison for mishandling secrets. It's what happened to Reality Winner.
Still, at least it happened. The assistants being revoked is good as well. A whole shit ton of former State Department need this treatment. They're openly hostile to us and security clearances create a revolving door.
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Okay - Hillary washes herself off for 2020, and Gov. Hickenlooper (often portrayed as pro-business) goes for VP. Or the other way around.
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Either way, Bill gets his freedom at the Westchester estate (which is what they had anticipated for 2016), with miscellaneous visits of dignitaries and the Energizer.
[POLITICO] Former Clinton Foundation head Donna Shalala is trailing former Spanish-language TV newswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, according to a new poll of a crucial, GOP-held Florida congressional district that Democrats had once counted on as an easy pickup.
Salazar’s narrow 2-percentage point lead is well within the Mason-Dixon Polling & Research survey’s 4-point margin of error. But the result stands in contrast to how the Democratic nominees for Senate and governor are faring in the Miami-based 27th Congressional District ‐ both are ahead of their Republican opponents by 4 points ‐ providing fresh evidence of Shalala’s underperforming campaign.
The big factor: Hispanics, who account for 57 percent of the voters and who came to know Salazar relatively well over her three decades broadcasting on Spanish language networks Telemundo, Univision, Mega-TV and CNN Español.
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Hispanics, who account for 57 percent of the voters
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50 yrs. ago I got one of my first jobs working in a factory in NJ. Most of the employees were Hispanic and didn't speak much English which is why I got a cushy job when I really didn't deserve it. The managers wanted someone that they could converse with.
But the point of that was there were two Hispanic factions that didn't like each other, the Cubans and the Puerto Ricans. The Cubans thought the PRs lazy and not good workers, the Cubans worked hard and never gave trouble. The PRs thought the Cs arrogant and bossy.
[POLITICO] Senate Democrats accepted an offer Thursday from Senate Republicans to confirm 15 lifetime federal judges in exchange for the ability to go into recess through the midterms, allowing endangered Democrats to campaign.
The calculation by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. and his caucus was simple: That Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be able to confirm roughly 15 judges if he kept the Senate in session for the next few weeks anyway. So Democrats OK’d an offer to confirm three Circuit Court judges and 12 Circuit Court judges as the price to pay to go home for election season.
Under Senate rules, even if Democrats fought the nominees tooth and nail and forced the Senate to burn 30 hours of debate between each one, McConnell would have gotten them all confirmed by Nov. 1. Democrats could have conceivably left a skeleton crew of senators in Washington to force the GOP to take roll call votes on the judges over the next few weeks, although that tactic is not typically employed by the minority.
Some liberal activists are urging Democrats to show more fight after Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court; Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos even said that Democrats "need a new Senate leader" after the agreement was struck. But senators had to weigh that dynamic along with the approaching midterms and the brutal Senate map. And with a half-dozen Democrats facing serious challenges in Senate races, it made more sense to make what Democrats said was a reasonable deal with McConnell so that they could make a serious run at saving endangered senators.
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Did they buy into the 3 of the 9th circus judges
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Every single one (including the women - these are Republican "women") a potential rapist!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] City Hall wants folks to believe that its deal for a 36-story luxury condo in Brooklyn Heights was strictly on the up and up. But emails newly obtained by The Post suggest it was every bit as seedy as other notorious deals on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s watch.
[NYPOST] An Upper East Side Republican club was vandalized overnight ‐ with a brick thrown through its window, two anarchy symbols scrawled on its front door and the locks glued, authorities said Friday.
...anybody not a leftist...
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[POLITICO] Senate Democrats accepted an offer Thursday from Senate Republicans to confirm 15 lifetime federal judges in exchange for the ability to go into recess through the midterms, allowing endangered Democrats to campaign.
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
