Hahahahahahahahaha!

Bloomberg proposes tough new campaign finance reform ideas. Howard Wolfson saves the day:

“Mike Bloomberg doesn’t take a dime in special interest money,” Wolfson said. “No one will ever have to wonder whether contributions influence his decisions….He works only for the taxpayers.”

Political Operatives

Yawn-fucking-yawn. If we think for ourselves, these people no longer have profiles written about them. The fiction that they have some sort of special power is what drives political observational media. And PBS shows.

La-La-La-La, It’s Going To Take More Than Even That To Get Me Not To Vote For Thompson

Look, the guy has one of the shittiest jobs in city government, given the last couple of years, but you just can’t cut him any slack now, can you:

The New York city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., is staking his mayoral campaign on his skills as a financial manager, which he says are exemplified by his supervision of the nation’s largest municipal pension system.

But a review of how the $80 billion system has performed since he took office shows it has consistently lagged behind many of its public pension peers even as the city tripled the number of money managers it uses and the fees that it pays those firms.

Over the last seven years, four of the five city pension funds performed below the median for similar funds around the country. In fact, more than two-thirds of the nation’s large pension funds did better than the city’s largest fund, the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, the data shows.

Just A Full-Service Lifeguard . . .

City lifeguards have been on the “hot seat” for a while now, and today Denis Hamill uses a drowning to go after them again, but not before the Post catches another somehow continuing his tax work at the beach, which is strange, considering it’s August and all:

An Aug. 13 letter from the City Conflicts of Interest Board warned Williams, a lifeguard since 1984, that he’d violated board rules by using a Parks Department phone to call clients and meeting a client at work.

La-La-La-La, You Still Can’t Convince Me Not To Vote For Thompson . . .

. . . he didn’t really say that much to DC37 about the Taylor Law, which, yes, if you spin it right, makes people remember the TWU strike, but besides, where did you get this anyway, because it has the Bloomberg campaign’s pawprints all over it?