Scott Stringer. (photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchwaxman/)
Scott Stringer is raising money from people with ties to his one-time opponent, Eva Moskowitz, who lost the Manhattan borough presidents race to Stringer in 2005 and now runs a charter school Manhattan.
Stringer got $150 from the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, Joe Williams. The group “only support[s] nonunion charter schools, bash[es] unions and get[s] subsidized by Wall Street hedge-fund managers,” according to the teacher’s union web site.
A board member of the group also co-founded the charter school now run by Moskowitz, in Harlem.
Stringer is the only 2013 candidate Joe Williams donated to, according to campaign records released on Friday.
Stringer also got $2,000 from the president of a school organization that advocates for “longer days” and “higher expectations and increased pay in lieu of tenure.” The organization, Green Dot Public Schools, headed by Gideon Stein, “is one of a handful of charter management organizations that has been able to create a climate of common trust with teachers unions,” Stein’s web site says.
Other interesting donors:
An interested reader noted Joe Germanotta — Lady Gaga’s father — donated $175 to Stringer.
Assemblyman Denny Farrell’s legislative aide, Earnestine Temple, donated $60, as did Farrell’s 2012 campaign, which gave $1,000.
Chairman of Manhattan Media — which publishes City Hall News, The Capitol, Our Town on Manhattan’s East Side and the West Side Spirit on the other side of Manhattan — donated $2,000 to Stringer.
Actress Martina Garcia donated a modest $25. The founder and editor in chief of Women’s eNews, Rita Jensen, donated $30. The editor of Print Magazine, Aaron Kenedi, donated $175.
And during the Weiner scandal — May 27, the day of the errant Tweet, to June 17, the day Weiner resigned — Stringer raised $105,581. That’s roughly the same amount as De Blasio and a little less than Quinn, and about half of Liu.
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did you really use the teachers union description as the top of the article to describe DFER with no inclusion for what they stand for in their own words?
the union description was so over-the-top, i thought it spoke for itself and that a sophisticated reader would understand that.
also, unions make up an important part of Democratic primary politics, and what they say about a Stringer donor (or any donor, really) is important.
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As the father of a Lady, wouldn’t his proper name be “Duke Gaga?”
touche!
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