Memo to Obama: Don’t take on people who, well, are Democrats, if you want to avoid ethical troubles:
Buildings sprang up as donations rained down on Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion
The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found.
Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show.
Most donations were organized and well-timed.
In one case, a developer became a Carrion fund-raiser two months before the borough president signed off on his project, raising more than $6,000 in campaign cash.
In another, eight Boricua College officials came up with $8,000 on the same day for Carrion three weeks before the school filed plans to build a new tower. Carrion ultimately approved the project and sponsored millions in taxpayer funds for it.
Carrion resigned as borough president effective Sunday and begins his new job as director of the White House Office on Urban Policy Monday.
Uh, Barry, old bean – you know those Chicago city government types who are corrupt as the day is long? Pretty much same/same when dealing with New York city government types. You think Carrion got himself to be borough president for his health? Because he wanted to help the downtrodden? Big city Democrats/corrupt creeps, its all the same.
And, liberals: these are the sort of people you want to put in charge of health care, education, energy development. They will be just as corrupt in their new guises as they were in their old jobs – in fact, this is a dream come true for Carrion…now he’s not just taking a payoff for a measly building in one city: now he gets to play with all of urban America to work the system for his personal benefit.
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