New Yorkers stopped voting because the public feels that their Government No Longer Serves Their Needs. Many residents feel disconnected from city politics because they do not understand how their government works. Adding to the lack of understanding newspaper no long cover politics beyond the horse race (who is winning). Problems including homelessness, poverty, lack of affordable housing and the closings of small businesses have been proliferating for years with no solutions. Pay to play corruption is everywhere. Voters have no clue on how to elect leaders in our government to fix these and other problems? Most incumbents in NY run unopposed or with weak opposition. How is NYC progressive if it has suppressive voting laws that keep low voters turnout?
NYC's dwindling voter turnout hits new low - NY Daily News
Turnout of Mayoral Elections has Dropped Nearly Every Election 4 DecadesHow the NYS Election Law Suppresses Voter Turnout, Helps Incumbents and Takes Power Away from the City's Neighborhoods
Finally A Shocker Election That Exposed the Machine Crowley Loses to Ocasio-Cortez
Joe Crowley Says Millennials Kicked Him Out Of Congress
Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering ... (NYDN)
Both Joe Crowley Brother and the Manhattan Democratic Boss Works for the Lobbyists Firm Davidoff Hutchen and Citron
How People Close to Joe Crowley Have Gotten Rich While the Queens Boss Has Risen in Congress (NYDN) Sean Crowley serves as a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron
LLP, a powerhouse law firm with offices in Albany, New York City, and
Washington, D.C., that advertises its ability to connect clients with congressional leadership. Over the last decade, clients with interests before Congress
have retained Sean Crowley through his lobbying firm, paying more than
$4.5 million to influence and monitor government policies, according to a
review of contracts by The Intercept.
Keith Wright might have to give up job at lobbying firm - New York Post
Wright works for the lawyer-lobbying firm Davidoff, Hutcher& Citron and is listed on its website as “director of the firm's government relations group” in the New York office focusing on “city and state” issues “as part of a seasoned team of lobbyists.”
Former assemblyman Keith Wright joins Davidoff Hutcher & Citron
Crowley’s Loss Heralds an ‘End of an Era’: Last of the Party Bosses * Ocasio-Cortez backers call on Crowley to resign as party boss * New York City political leaders grapple with life after the machine * Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering political partners * Bronx Machine Gathers to Sort Through Post-Joe Crowley Wreckage
A Lobbyist Is Now Running Manhattan's Democratic Party | Village Voic
New York's Election Law is Designed to Lower Voter Turnout
The New Tammany Machine is Made Up of Old Time Party Bosses and the the New Lobbyists Campaign Consultants
Low Voting Caused by NY’s NY's Election Law has Given New Power to Political Party Machines, and has Empowered A New Political Bosses the New Un-elected Campaign Consultant Lobbyists into A New Pay to Play Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall Still Runs NYC's Political Parties in 2018
The Manhattan Boss is A Lobbyists * Lobbying Firms hired by de Blasio earned at least $10M from campaign and non-profits * Mayor de Blasio's Hired Lobbyists Guns: Private Consultants Help Shape City Hall * More about Brooklyn Boss Seddio * Tammany Hall Is Alive and Well in the Bronx | | Observer* Democratic machine pulled in real estate cash while deciding City Council speakership Rudin Management, BFC Partners, Brodsky Organization and others gave to Queens power broker * Former lobbyist re-elected to head Manhattan Democrats(NYP) * Queens Machine, Part 1: You've Got to Pay Your Dues - WNYC News ... * Queens Machine, Part 4: Meet the Boss - WNYC News - WNYC
Almost Nobody Votes in Party Elections . . . Most Party Bosses and Power Brokers (Underbosses) Stay in Power for Decades with No Challenges
More About Low Voting Party Elections (True NEWS) * Three lawyers control Queens Democratic Party ... - NY Daily News * In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate's Court - The New York Times * NY Corrupt Party Boss Crowley
Many Local Activists and People Involved in Their Local Community Groups Do Not See How the Effectiveness of Their Causes Will Benefit If Their Add Their Voice Inside the Democratic Party to the Issues They Care About.
Groups Working for Issues in NYC Should Not Do It As Outsiders in the Democratic Party
Run for Your County Committee! - Veterans Alliance
Affordable Housing and Tenant Leaders Must Run for County Committee
People Working for Better Schools Should Also Be Running for County Committee
Groups fighting for Seniors Should Have their Members Run for County Committee
Groups Fighting for Property Tax Relief Should Have their Members Run for County Committee
Groups Seeking to improve the Subways Should Have their Members Run for County Committee
Neighborhood Associations Seeking to Improve Their Community Quality of Life
Lobbyists Campaign Consultants Funded by Developers and City Contractors Have Centralized Politics, Sucking the Power Out of the City's Neighborhoods . . . Blocking Local Leaders From Running
Low Turnout Elections Has Enable, Given More Power to Lobbyists, Party Leaders Who are Funded by Developers, Unions and Other City Contractors to Control Who Gets Elected in Local Elections
Local leaders who want to solver the real problems like affordable housing, better schools and help for mom and pop businesses have a very hard time getting elected.
Berlin Rosen and A Group of Their Consultant Lobbyists Co-Conspiracy Walmartization of NY's Politics
Shadow lobbyists Corruption Were At the Center At the Both the Skelos and Silver Trials
The Lobbyist's Shadow Government
Corrupt Money Pours Into Incumbent Pols
"Governor pulls in real estate contributions through 'egregious' loopholes"
Mr. Right Now: de Blasio Continues Wooing Real Estate ...
De Blasio 'doesn't recall' $100K donation in alleged pay-to-play scheme
The Rise of Berlin Rosen
More on Lobbyist Berlin Rosen
De Blasio solicited donations in exchange for meetings with major lobbyist’s clients but didn't report it - Daily News
Lobbyists Were At the Center of the Pay to Play Corruption in the Silver, Skelos, Percoco Trials and de Blasio Has His Secret Agents Lobbyists
Hundreds of Democrats rally to oust Manhattan Democratic Chair Keith Wright
Hundreds of Democrats rally to oust Manhattan Democratic Chair Keith Wrigh
The Forgotten Virtues of Tammany Hall - The New York Times
Party Leaders Have Now Been Joined by Lobbyist Sometimes Working Together to Control Who Gets Elected
Old time Tammany Halls' Boss De Sapio lobbied for affordable housing, protecting neighborhoods from developers and for lower subway fairs. Political Boss De Sapio kept his power by delivering votes to politicians. District Leaders in the Tammany Hall era needed to not only deliver government services and jobs to voters in their districts. They also needed to protect their neighborhoods to keep their deliverable votes high, from the developers who were trying to raise rents and displace residents. Today's Gentrification displacement and low voting in local elections created a campaign consultant lobbyists shadow govt that has taken power out of the local community by controlling who gets elected. A cabal of developers, government contractors and unions elect local candidates who then run the government to benefit the groups that helped elect them.
undreds of Democrats rally to oust Manhattan Democratic Chair Keith Wri
The lobbyist-consultants gain power by using money from the developers and city contractors to drive out local candidates. They use the
Walmart model of destroying local competition of independent candidates who can fight the pay to play corruption
for the needs and concerns of the community. This Walmart-like
takeover of local political campaigns sucks the power out of NYC's once
strong neighborhood control. Super tall buildings all over and no
leaders to fight the special interests that are destroying affordable
housing, mom and pop stores and ignore homelessness, poor education,
broken subways and other quality of live problems. As Jack Newfield, the late great journalist wrote in his book The Permanent Government: to fix NYC, we need to empower the people of New York to take back the control over political parties from party bosses bottom up, block by block, electing candidates who will fight for the needs of the people and the neighborhoods they live in.
Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting (Voice, Barrett, 2010)
Only By Occupying the Local Democratic Party Can We Begin to Take Back NYC's Govt and Elections
Community involvement is also the only way to fight pay to play corruption in Albany and City Hall. Albany refuses to change NY's Suppressive Voting Laws because low voting helps incumbent politicians, consultant lobbyists and party bosses win re-election. Voting in NYC is at its lowest--only 13% voted in the Democratic Primary in 2017 for mayor or city council. By comparison, in 1951 voter participation was over 90% for these seats. In 2016, only 4% of new Yorker's voted in the 2016 democratic primary for their district leader, county committee and democratic party chairman.
NYC had an abysmally low voter turnout in Tuesday's primary election
Jimmy Breslin on His Mayoral Run With Norman Mailer ... - NYMag
NYC Needs to Empower the Neighborhoods and Its People Like Mayor Lindsay Tried 50 Years Ago
The 1963 City Charter, adopted during Wagner’s third term as Mayor, extended the neighborhood governance concept to the other boroughs, establishing 'Community Planning Boards' throughout the city. Eventually, these came to be known simply as 'Community Boards.' In 1989, the voters of New York City ratified new Charter provisions, changing how City government deals with the budget, land-use matters, and service delivery. The Community Board’s important roles in all of these areas were either expanded or reaffirmed by the new Charter.
How the County Committee Works
The NY Democratic Party is governed by committees of citizens who are registered Democrats, from the state level down to the block you live on.
The largest national parties (Democrats and Republicans) are mandated by the state to have a committee of party members in each of New York's 62 counties. In NYC, there are separate County Committees for each party in Kings, Queens, Bronx, New York, and Richmond Counties. County Committee Members Are Elected by Voters In Each of the City's Elections Districts (EDs). There are Almost 10,000 EDs in the city.
How the Bronx County Committee Has Been Abused
Squadron Departure Spotlights Importance of County Committee
Every two years, Democrats in each assembly district elect two district leaders: one male and one female
Today's District Leaders Choose the Party Boss
Who Serves Their Needs Not the Communities
Fix NYC wants the county committee to pick the party leader
Who Serves Their Needs Not the Communities
Fix NYC wants the county committee to pick the party leader
OLD TIMES DISTRICT LEADERS benefited their
followers in many ways. They got their constituents work, brought their community together at picnics and on steamboat excursions,
and, even cared for them when they were sick. The old time district leaders were ready to help their voters in trouble with the representatives of the law. These district leaders thus had a
very strong influence over a large class, the members of which were ordinarily decent, hard working people, who worked in various trades, but never got far ahead. The people who at times fell into want, and
who sometimes were kinsfolk of semi-criminal type. These voters were apt to
regard saloons as their club-houses. Often, the saloons were the headquarters of local political organizations and were the true social centers of neighborhood life.
District Leaders Today
District Leaders Today
The District Leaders of today give out poll worker jobs on election day to supporters who collect petitions signatures, putting their district leader and his or her political and judicial candidates on the ballot. Today's district leaders do not advocate for community needs to Democratic elected officials, fail to organize the local get-out-the-vote operation, and do not represent the neighborhood on the county party executive committee like the old time district leaders did. The District Leaders of today neglect basic, grassroots community-building activities and instead focus on getting their favored candidates elected to local judgeships, increasing their political power to run for higher office, and getting government job appointments and well as court appointments from the judges they elect. Today very few district leaders face primary and many have been in office for decades.
No, Seriously: What’s a District Leader
The Reason Why You're Voting for a Male and a Female District Leader
The New York State primary is on Thursday, September 13th. And you may see candidates running for some lesser-known positions on your ballot, like Male or Female District Leader.
A quick primer: District leaders are unpaid party officials, elected by voters who are registered with their party to oversee the county committee in their assembly district. They aren't legislators, so they don't handle laws. They're mostly in place to run the party's activity in their district.
So why the distinct Male and Female District Leader roles? The reason can be traced back to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters.
Sarah Steiner, an attorney who practices election law, says the two roles were created in 1920, at around the same time as women's suffrage. Eleanor Roosevelt, a vocal advocate for women's rights, had just joined the League of Women Voters. Her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was running for Vice President (this was before he served as governor of New York). Eleanor Roosevelt believed that women had a crucial role to play in understanding and leading their localities. Steiner says it was largely thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League that this District Leadership role was created for women to gain an entry-level position in political party leadership. "It was her idea, and their idea, that politics ought to be more opened up to women, and that giving women the vote would help the reform of the entire political process," Steiner told WNYC. What if two women want to become district leaders in the same assembly district? Well, there's only room for one. Steiner says she doesn't see that as a limitation of the rule. If anything, it's a good problem to have. "To have an entry level position, a position of some power in the party, of some influence in the party, is a very important thing," Steiner said. "Otherwise we might still be baking cookies instead of making policy." https://www.wnyc.org/story/reason-why-youre-voting-male-and-female-district-leader/
The District Leaders and Boss Make Up the Executive Committee of the County Committee That Pick Judgeships
Fix NYC plan would transfer the power of the executive committee back to the county committee.
What Happened at County Committee? Looking at the Data, Part II: The Count
Kings County Democratic Committee – Time To Engage With Your Members! OPINION
There are 21 Assembly District in Brooklyn . . . The Executive Committee Has 42 Members
Fix NYC believes that the party executive committees are controlled by the political bosses who have too much power.
Fix NYC believes that the party executive committees are controlled by the political bosses who have too much power.
County Committee Members are Elected by Election Districts
Each election district (or ED) is made up of a small number of city blocks. Each ED has two (2) to four (4) seats in the general membership of the county committee; so when all the seats are filled, there are approximately 3000 members.
6 EASY STEPS TO RUNNING FOR COUNTY COMMITTEE
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| Occupy the Brooklyn Democratic Party 2018 |
(This can easily be done by looking up your address on the NYC Doitt Map or on the BOE’s website) Step 2: Figure out if there is a vacancy. You can reach out to the Board of Elections or your local Democratic County Office. If there is not, you can run in any ED that falls within your AD. Step 3: Calculate how many signatures you need. You will need 5% of the registered democrats in your chosen ED, which usually amounts to 5-60 signatures.
Here are some quick links where you can find the number of registered Democrats in your AD/ED for the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Step 4: Create your County Committee Petition under your chosen party. You can begin collecting signatures from voters within your party only during petitioning season. Getting signatures outside of that window is illegal.
Petitioning starts on June 5 and ends on July 8. Go with a friend. Meet your neighbors. It’ll be fun!
Step 5: Submit those signatures you collected. You will need to create a cover sheet & bind your pages before submitting. You can submit by going to dropping them off to the NYS Board of Elections Office. You can do that between July 9 and July 12. Step 6: If you were running unopposed, congratulations! You are now a county committee person!
If not and you are running against someone, Step 6 means going back to those neighbors and getting them to vote for you in the Primary.
Squadron Departure Spotlights Importance of County Committee
Our Un-Democratic County Committee
The political bosses ensure that a vast number of the seats on the county committee are left unfilled, undermining our goal of broad participation in the county decision-making. These political bosses usurp the power of the county committee by using proxies of county committee members they elect to control what the county committee does. Instead of representing the needs of Brooklyn residents, the county committee operates as a private country club by representing the interests of political bosses.
As the New York Post reported, the election by executive committee members only happened by voice vote at a diner. This, after Crowley lost the Congressional primary in June to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Bronx County Democrats also meet tonight and will potentially discuss judicial nominees. Many of you have asked how nominees for judgeships end up on the ballot. The answer is complicated, but county committees play a central role.
- Select Judicial Candidates
- Select the Democratic Party's Nominee in Special Elections
- This one is particularly important, since one (1) in three (3) current New York state legislators were chosen in a special election!
- Help Create the Democratic Party Platform (currently not being used at all):
- Spearhead Ethics Reforms in Both City Hall and Albany
- Reforms to NY's Voter Suppression Election Laws Ethics
- Fight Developers
- Push for Better Schools and Health Care
- Fight Air Pollution and Traffic Safety/Congestion
- Neighborhood Planning and Zoning
- Education and Police Oversight
- Reduce Sanitation and Parking Tickets
- Fight for Low Income Reduced Subway Fairs
- Organize local neighborhoods
- And more!
- They also choose which candidates to run in a special election. This is incredibly important considering that one-third of state Assembly members were first sent to Albany through a special election, according to a 2017 report by Citizens Union. In the state senate, 19 percent of lawmakers were initially elected this way.
- Up until recently? Show up once every two years and hand the power over to the party boss.
- Seddio Re-Elected Democratic County Boss Following Raucous Meeting
You Need Petitions to Run for County Committee and Other Party Offices
Petitions Start June 5th and Run Through July 12th 2018
you will only need 3 to 20 signatures from the ED!
5% of the registered Party Voters in That ED
You could be on the Bronx Democratic County Committee and not even know it
How to Run for District Leader
1 male and 1 female from each of the Assembly Districts need only
500 Signatures from the AD
Maps of the Assembly Districts
Look Up What Election and Assembly District You Live in
Who Chooses Supreme Court Judges
Judicial Delegates Pick Supreme Court Judges From A Convention Held Right After the Democratic Primary.
To become a Judicial Delegate you will only need 500 Signatures from your Assembly District! All 6 of the Judicial Candidates From the Same ED Can Appear on the Same Petiton
A Convention Made Up of Winning Judicial Delegates (about a 100 delegates) Meets Once After the Primary to Nominate Supreme Court Judges
Who Really Picks New York's Judges? | Brennan Center for Justice
Voter Suppression in Deep-Blue New York - Bloomberg
Not-So-Special Elections - Gotham Gazette * How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Candidates in New York - NY Times*It's Party Bosses — Not Voters — Who Often Fill Vacant Seats in the State Legislature * Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Handpicks State Senate Candidate ... * Special Election Spotlights Machine Politics in The Bronx
How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Candidates in NY (NYT) * Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Handpicks State Senate Candidate .. * Party Leaders Override Local Dems, Select Kavanagh for Squadron's Seat
New York's Multiple Primaries are Designed to Lower Voter Turnout
McGoven's 1 Primary Lesson Still Rules
40 Years Ago George McGovern's Presidential Race Pulled Out Tens of Thousands of New Voters in A Primary, Causing Albany Lawmakers and Congressmen to Lose. Since 1972 Albany has Split Primaries to Two Sometime Three Separate Primaries A Year to Lower Voter Turnout
Rockefeller heiress single-handedly funds Cuomo's Women's Equality Party *Independence Party Is Really A Cult Mixed With Organized Crime* Klein, Independence Party violated campaign finance rules: judge * The WFP and Berlin Rosen Has Played Fast and Lose With the Election Law, Data and Field Arrests * WFP the New Progressive Machine, Is it Corrupt At Its Core?
Party Machines Have Total Control Over Picking Judges At Judicial Conventions
Political Bosses Sausage Factory Electing Judges in NYC
'Smoke-Filled Rooms' Still Rule New York Judicial Elections (WNYC) * More on How the Machine Runs Judges Unopposed (NY1) * Party Boss Has Firm Grip On Judgeships (NYT) * Borough Dems chief involved in 'illegal' fund-raiser for judicial candidates (NYDN) * Did Silver Corrupt the Manhattan Court? * All About Judicial Races and Corruption Bronx cheers as DA playsmusical chairs with judge. (WNYC) * Johnson Gets Judge Nod; Clark Tapped To Run For D.A.(Bronx
Chronicle) * Johnson’s quick transformation from a candidate for
re-election to a nominee for state court justice – without a vote being
cast – is raising questions about
the clout that state election law gives to party leaders and shedding
light on New York’s largely obscure judicial electoral system. *
How the politically connected control the New York court system (NYP)
* The Robbing Room * Friends of Vito Lopez have a leg up when it comes to jobs as judges, even if 'unqualified' * Credentials Lacking For Nine Nominees To Brooklyn Bench
How the politically connected control the New York court system (NYP)
* The Robbing Room * Friends of Vito Lopez have a leg up when it comes to jobs as judges, even if 'unqualified' * Credentials Lacking For Nine Nominees To Brooklyn Bench
The Brooklyn Boss Made Millions Closing A Hospital for A Development and Dumped A Judge Who Tried To Keep the Hospital Open
Judge Jacobson Who Tried to Keep A Hospital Open
is Suing Brooklyn Boss Seddio and His Fake Screen Panel for Dumping Her * More on Closing Long Island College Hospital* Boss Seddeo * Judge Jacobson's Case Update * Brooklyn Democratic Boss Seddio
5 Million Dollar Lawsuit filed By A Judge Jacobson Who Was Dumped By Boss Seddeo
The Brooklyn Boss Made Money Off of Closing A Hospital to Build Affordable Housing
Political Bosses Use Judicial Back Fills to Control Who Becomes A Civil Court Judge and Even the Bronx DA by Cutting the Voters Out
Johnson presided over a DA’s office that perpetually had the worst conviction rate in the city for major crimes. When it came to government corruption, it was US Attorney Preet Bharara who brought cases that sent Bronx politicians to prison — not Johnson.
Below the law as Bronx pols Rob Johnson and Darcel Clarke break the rules (Daily News) * NYC’s Dumbest Elections: Races for DA in a Year When No One is Looking (City Limits) * In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate's Court - The New York Times * Family of Queens Democratic Boss Snatches Up Supreme Court Appointments * Fire Boss Crowley - Queens Against Crowley * Dem boss calls primary 'waste' • Brooklyn Daily
Three lawyers control Queens Democratic Party while one rakes millions from Surrogate’s Court wills
Bronx Machine
Close Ties Among Bronx Electeds, Campaign Consultants, Lobbyists and Donors (Gottham)
"The Surrogate Court is A Political Toll Booth Exacting Tribute From Widows and Orphans"
- Robert Kennedy, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
Senator Kennedy Serious Try to Reform Surrogate Court
Queens A Court, Not Votes, Sustains a Political Machine in Queens (NYT, 11/28/11)
Bronx Bronx Surrogate Judge, Facing Discipline (NYT)
Brooklyn Lawyer makes millions with no details on fees - New York Daily News
Staten Island Expose Corrupt Courts: Cover-Up Continues in Surrogate's Court
Facts About Manhattan Surrogate Court 2008: Feinberg Disbarred ... * How insiders snatch millions from estates in the scandal-scarred Surrogate Courts * To clean up corrupt Surrogate Courts, wake up and vote - NY Daily ... * The Fall of the Phillips Empire | Local Brooklyn News and Features ... * A TRAIL OF SWEAT, TEARS Jimmy Breslin *For Cleaner Courts in Brooklyn (NYT)* Brooklyn New York Surrogate Court Judge Michael Feinberg Ousted For Corrupt Practices * State Commission Seeking Ouster of Surrogate Judge in Brooklyn ... * Surrogate's Court And Why It Should Go (True News)
Party Puppets Rubber Stamp The Political Bosses Pick for Supreme Court Judges
"A
dozen delegates, in recent interviews, said they could not even
remember the handful of candidates they had nominated for the State
Supreme Court last year. They said the convention, as always, had been a
carefully scripted event lasting less than an hour. Whether
the candidates were potentially outstanding judges, the delegates said
they never knew. Before the convention, the party never makes an effort
to inform them about which candidates are going to be nominated. In
fact, the names are often secret." NY Times 2003
For
decades in New York, the law has required that political parties
nominate candidates to run for State Supreme Court at judicial
conventions, not in primaries. The conventions are attended by delegates
who are elected on the neighborhood level and who are supposed to
evaluate candidates before offering the best ones a spot on the November
ballot. In
theory, the conventions are intended to help achieve the civic goal of
allowing citizens, through their votes, to decide the makeup of the
state's highest trial court. But in practice, according to legal
experts, prosecutors and even the delegates themselves, the conventions
have long been highly cynical exercises, just another cog in the
operations of political party machines. There
is, for instance, often no debate about candidates, and party leaders
wind up dictating nominations, frequently handing them to loyalists who
have donated to the party or worked on campaigns. In
fact, the nominating conventions have received so little attention that
the City Board of Elections says it does not even keep an official
record of those who serve as convention delegates -- the people legally
charged with helping determine who gets on the bench.
Judicial Selection for Supreme Court Justices December 2006 * Who Really Picks New York's Judges? | Brennan Center for Justice 2015 * 'Smoke-Filled Rooms' Still Rule New York Judicial Elections - WNYC ... * NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS ET AL. v. LOPEZ TORRES ET AL. * Longtime Bronx DA Secures Nomination for Judge - Norwood News * Judicial Sausage Factory Continues, Almost Nobody Noticed
Who Watches the Watchmen DAs, AG
Most of the DAs and AG Have Been Elected With the Lobbyists Berlin Rosen and Red Horse Who Work for the Mayor's Campaign for One NY PAC
Who Watches the Watchmen DAs, AG
Who Watchers the Watchman, Lobbyists, Grand Jury, AG - DAs Conflict of Interests With NYPD and Elected Officials
The new lobbyists consultants work for the DA's and AG who turn their backs on these same lobbyist operating a shadow pay to play govt, that elects their candidates with the PACs they work in and Illegally coordinate with the campaigns they run.
More on the Manhattan DA
Queens Corruption and District Attorney
The Bronx DA, The BP and Corruption Machine
Queens Corruption and District Attorney
The Bronx DA, The BP and Corruption Machine
Most of the DAs and AG Have Been Elected With the Lobbyists Berlin Rosen and Red Horse Who Work for the Mayor's Campaign for One NY PAC
True
News Has Learned: Red Horse Working for Bronx DA Candidate Darcel
Clark and A Queens DA Candidate and Has Worked for the Brooklyn and New York DAs Political
consultant Red Horse worked for Brooklyn DA Thompson campaign along
with Berlin Rosen. Both Red Horse and Advance Group worked for the
UFT's PAC United for the Future (the UFT attempted to covering up
Advance involvement by paying them through a fake company) Red Horse
worked for Manhattan DA. Red Horse worked for Brooklyn BP Adams, Bronx
BP Diaz and PA James. Red Horse worked for Manhattan DA Cy Vance. Red
Horse worked for Pitta Bishop for Brooklyn BP Adams. Red Horse worked
with George Arzt in the Queens BP campaign.
Convert the 59 Community Boards into
100 NYC Local Town Halls
As City Proceeds with Two Charter Revision Commissions, A Cautionary Tale from Los Angeles
The Brief, Half-Serious, and Sort of Visionary Political Career of Jimmy Breslin
2. We should change the way Community Board Member are chosen. Right now the 50 members to the board are chosen by the local councilmember and borough president.
3. We should make any County Committee member from any political party a voting member of their local Community Board. Those who are not a member of a major party can become a member of a community board by submitting 25 signatures of registered voters who live in the community board district.
4. NYC needs to change the present redistricting of elected officials districts, judicial district and municipal functions—schools, police, etc.—which was designed for the convenience of various central departments or the political machines into 100% overlapping cohere districts.
5. Independent Neighborhood City Halls need a share of the city's budget to hire its own professionals and budget on its own.
6. Local City Halls will work a a genuine means of contact with public life, we average citizens can go to complain about issues like homelessness, get help in organizing tenant or block party organizations and give suggestions on how to improve city services.
8. Reforming the campaign finance law and adopting Seattle’s ‘Democracy Voucher’ system of public financing of campaigns. Public financing for all state and judicial elections.
9. New York City residences should have a recall option to remove corrupt citywide elected officials or those not doing their job. 18 states have recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. Recall elections, or the possibility of them, extend the democratic procedure as they mean that local (and some state) elected officials need to be continuously responsible and responsive to public opinion.
New England Town Meetings | Participedia
New England or 'Open' Town Meetings are public forums that promote participation in local governance. Town meetings allow residents to voice their opinions on public issues and deliberate and vote on laws and budgets. "Proponents of the town assembly emphasize that it is the purest form of democracy
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