de Blasio Camapign Aide Hilltop Hyers Lobbyists Capalino Under Fed Investigation for CONY Money Washing for Senate Campaign Now As Airbnb Lobbyists Has 10 Million PAC to Shape the Senate
Airbnb set tospend $10M on Super PAC created to fund pre-Election Day ads (NYDN) With a month to go before the elections, Airbnb is set to dump a whopping $10 million into a Super PAC it created to help with its fight in New York, the Daily News has learned. The Stronger Neighbors political action committee will use a portion of the money to fund pre-Election Day ads designed to educate voters about the positions lawmakers have taken on home sharing, a source familiar with the situation said. The $10 million is on top of $1 million Airbnb used in June to seed the new PAC. The allocations would make the Airbnb PAC one of the largest — if not the largest-political action committee in the state. "We want to make sure that our hosts know we're in their corner, and that both our critics and our allies hear their voices this November and beyond," said Airbnb's Josh Meltzer. He accused the hotel industry, which has led the charge against Airbnb, of spending "tens of millions of dollars to buy influence in Albany and launch an endless barrage of misleading attacks to vilify the 46,000 New York hosts who rely on home sharing as an economic lifeline."
Airbnb has been fighting a bill that would prohibit the advertising of illegal units on home-sharing sites and would impose fines of up to $7,500 per violation. The Legislature passed the first-in-the-nation bill in June before ending the legislative session. It has yet to be sent to Gov. Cuomo, who has not said whether he intends to sign or veto the measure. ShareBetter, a coalition of unions, politicians, and housing and tenant groups fighting Airbnb, accused the company of spending "tens of millions of dollars in a cynical attempt to hijack the political process."* Former de Blasiocampaign manager Bill Hyers joins Airbnb payroll (NYDN) Under fire for flouting the law in NYC, the popular apartment sharing website Airbnb has hired a high-powered consultant with close ties to Mayor de Blasio. Airbnb has brought on Bill Hyers, who served as de Blasio’s campaign manager in his come-from-behind election last year, the Daily News has learned. Airbnb also appears to be sparing no expense with consultants. The company has an in-house spokesman and has retained communications strategist Risa Heller. It also hired Obama’s former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor. Vietor's firm, Fenway Strategies, has not done any work for Airbnb in the NYC market. Airbnb also has lobbyists Capalino and Bolton St Johns on the Payroll
de Blasio Campaign Manager Bill Hires' Hilltop Helps Run the OneNY PAC
1. Hires: de Blasio Campaign Manager Who Uses Candidate Fake Arrest to Protest A Closing Hospital As A Prop
2. Once the Hospital is Closed Hires Who Works for the Mayor Slush Fund PAC One NY Uses It to Tell the Community That the Band Aid ER the Developer Agreed to Build is As Good As the Closed Hospital
3. Hires: Sell A Large Development to Replace te Closed to A Community Who Opposes It
4. Is de Blasio Using His 2013 Campaign Account to Pay Hires to Supplement His Pay the Director of His One NY PAC?
Insider Hiring PACs and Hilltop
The smell’s still growing from the mayor’s insider hire (NYP) The Stephanie Yazgi saga keeps growing worse as new facts emerge to undermine the de Blasio team’s official story.
City Hall gave Yazgi a $150,000 taxpayer-funded “immigration strategist” position. The hire raised two red flags: 1) The opening was never publicly announced, and 2) Yazgi is the romantic partner of key mayoral staffer Emma Wolfe. But as The Post reported Sunday, Yazgi was
doing de Blasio’s work in a privately paid job before going on the city payroll. Yazgi worked for Hilltop Consulting — which was pulling in $103,000 from de Blasio’s political action committee, the Campaign For One New York. In that job, she helped manage his universal pre-K push. This news contradicts a central administration claim about the Yazgi hire — that City Hall had to put her on the public payroll because private funding fell through. In fact, the mayor’s PAC had at least $1 million on hand to keep paying her, directly or via Hilltop. Yet de Blasio &
Co. decided taxpayers should pick up the tab instead. Her duties have far more to do with the mayor’s fantasies of leading a countrywide movement than with the city’s needs: She’s networking to push immigration reform and (in a wrinkle only disclosed weeks after her hire) on de Blasio’s pet national issue, income equality.
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