Michael Bloomberg dumps $5M into ads for Kathy Hochul budget push vs left
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is dropping a reported $5 million on a media blitz to help Gov. Kathy Hochul beat back lefty opposition to her charter cap-lifting, bail law toughening proposed budget ahead of an April 1 deadline.posted by a shadowy group called American Opportunity, which could not be reached for comment by publication time.
News of the three-term mayor’s entrance into the state budget process was reported Tuesday by The New York Times as budget negotiations heat up between Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins . that American Opportunity, which has ties to the Democratic Governors Association, is engaging in the budgetary expert even though it is registered as a social-welfare nonprofit organization with the federal government.
“There are only a few enforcement people at the state Board of Elections and they’re hamstrung, deliberately hamstrung by rules, and there’s not very many of them to start with,” John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, said. “So there are lots and lots of laws and rules that are barely enforced, and even then they’re full of loopholes.”
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