Campaign For One, New York!

And then your union dues go to the mayor’s slush fund:

After the 12-year mayoralty of billionaire Mike Bloomberg, whose wealth afforded him level of insulation from campaign donors, a more transactional style of politics has taken hold through an organization Mayor Bill de Blasio set up to promote his policy agenda.

Since its inception on Dec. 12, 2013, the operation known as Campaign for One New York has accepted $3.87 million from dozens of real estate developers, unions and others who do business with City Hall. The setup allows the mayor to raise money outside the regulations of the city Campaign Finance Board.

The contributors to his group include individuals and firms seeking approvals for their projects, and they often donate through limited liability companies that obscure their identities.

In some cases, donors gave money right before or after getting a city-granted benefit, according to a POLITICO New York review of $1.71 million in individual contributions that poured in during the first six months of 2015.

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In March, District Council 37, the city’s largest municipal union, donated $20,000 to the campaign. Around that time, the union’s leadership was successfully negotiating raises for its lowest-paid members with the city Office of Labor Relations.

“DC 37’s support for the Campaign for One New York’s efforts to draw attention and find solutions to the city’s affordable housing crisis is based solely on merit,” DC 37 executive director Henry Garrido said in a statement to POLITICO New York.

“Like hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of their fellow New Yorkers, our members struggle to pay the exorbitant housing costs that now endanger the working- and middle-class of our city. We will continue to do all that we can to support efforts that ease this burden and increase accessibility to affordable housing.”