We Are All Pay To Play Now

Also known as “bringing home the bacon and then getting generously tipped for doing so,” I feel like we’ve heard this story before. Indeed, it’s back again:

A Daily News review of campaign contributions to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn identified more than 200 contributions — totaling $126,789 — from the top employees of nonprofits slated to snag Council money from her this year.

With public matching funds, those contributions are worth $242,055 to the speaker’s 2013 mayoral bid.

The public matching fund part is a nice touch — like double dipping almost!

Quinn got $847,464 in discretionary spending for FY2012 (see clickable map here), almost a 30 percent return on her, uh, our investment. I wonder which member is giving us the best return — someone should figure that out . . . and I’ll gladly vote for that member for public advocate.