Posted on 02/15/2007 9:40:59 AM PST by Liz
..........when Giuliani's campaign chest approached the maximum he could spend for re-election in 1997, $9.7 million, Kislin was one of several top backers of the mayor who supported the Liberal Party, which had endorsed the mayor and helped finance his campaign, according to The Village Voice. One of Kislin's companies gave $30,000 to the Liberals. Kislin also kicked in $7,700 to Jules Polenetsky, who was running with Giuliani for the city's office of public advocate and could share political advertisement costs with the mayor. Giuliani's campaign manager had asked the mayor's major contributors to help finance Polenetsky's campaign.
In 1996, Kislin hosted a fund-raiser for Giuliani, a former hard-charging federal prosecutor, at the Lido Restaurant in Brooklyn. And last May 25, 1995 Kislin also was a co-chair for a Giuliani fund-raiser at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. The bash raised $2.1 million for his probable run for the Senate next year. I did a lot of fund raising for Giuliani," Kislin acknowledged. "He's a good man, doing a good job for the city of New York." Bruce Teitelbaum, the spokesman for Giuliani's Senate campaign exploratory committee, refused through an aide to comment on Semyon Kislin's support of Giuliani. Teitelbaum refused to return calls himself.
Mayor Giuliani's press secretary, Sunny Mindel, said "I don't know anything about the mayor's contributors," and referred the question to Teitelbaum. The campaign did return a $2,000 check last August that it had received at the Sheraton Hotel fund-raiser from Philip Castellano, son of the late racketeer Paul Castellano, even though the younger Castellano has never been accused of a crime.
Arik Kislin, Semyon's nephew, contributed $1,000 to Mayor Giuliani in 1995.
Gee, this sounds EXACTLY like what happened to Duncan Hunter. I'll wait while freepers express their righteous indignation about that little matter.
One of several articles:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076469/posts
Golly gee! I think another shoe is about to drop...
Hunter for president bump!
Posting an article from over 7 years ago, wow! Gotta reach far there. Why are you not posting articles about Hillary Clinton? Unless you have an agenda and want her to win.
Interesting, but let's put it into perspective. $14,000 over a period of four years is not exactly huge.
As for the Liberal Party, sometimes it's too the left of the NY Democrat party, and sometimes it's the more honest of the two. In this case, they were supporting Giuliani against Dinkins. If I were a NYC businessman, or even a Mafia capo, I'd put my money against Dinkins. As, I believe, the Conservative Party did at that time. Of the available candidates for Mayor, Giuliani was the only possible choice except for corrupt freeloaders.
Gee, this sounds EXACTLY like what happened to Duncan Hunter. I'll wait while freepers express their righteous indignation about that little matter.
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The source for this thread is not a thread from the FR archive, interesting but not surprising you should try to portray it as such, and Thanks for the link to a 3 year old thread, and even better, one of my oldies.
It grew 5 fold last night in replies, even tho it didn't quite pan out as you and the crew had hoped it would.
Let folks read it for themselves to see why. ;-)
I look forward to the May 3 debate at the Reagan Library.
Well, crap! I mean, what's wrong with the concept that someone could run for office on their integrity and not nepotism? "I'll scratch my own back, thank you very much, and you scratch yours..." What's wrong with that?
The man's been completely out of politics for more than five years. All there is to go on is what he did as mayor, most of which happened in the 90s.
I guess when you don't have a point you don't mind lying. Why don't you tell all of us how I tried to portray this as a thread from the FR archives. I'll wait while you try and do it.
Why are you not posting articles about Hillary Clinton? Unless you have an agenda and want her to win.
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Is Hillary running for the GOP nomination? Wow, times are a-changin', huh?
Oh, Gee, Gosh Golly!
See how easily folks can twist things for their won purposes, To those who were here, it is not that much of a reach. I would't expect you to either see or acknowledge that. No problem.
Using the politics of personal destruction is a 2 way sword gambit, how ya enjoying the gambit so far?
Like I said , let folks judge for themselves, rather than attempt to browbeat folks. Just a thought.
I see some people have not read the article, which seems to happen a lot around here.
FR couldn't take down Donald Duck these days, let alone Dan Rather.
From the article:
But Kislin said that he and his company were cleared of any suspicion in that investigation and that he received a letter from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles in 1996 notifying him that he no longer was a target. He provided the Center with a copy of the letter, which says, in part, that the prosecutors had "declined to pursue a civil penalty action against Trans Commodities or Sam Kislin."
What nepotism? Did you even read the article?
is there a statute of limitations on informing the public??
Lots of names, oddles of speculation, tons of implications. All adding up to ZERO. No prosecutions, no arrests, no convictions. LoL
So you flat out lied, got caught and don't have the decency to admit it.
Candidates rarely know the background details of all their donors. It would be silly for us to expect them to.
More amazingly the www.gohunter08.com site still has a link (Case for Hunter - bronze star) to a WAPO article that says:
"Hunter was a close ally of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican who was sentenced to more than eight years in prison this year for accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Hunter has accepted $46,000 in campaign donations from the same contractors at the center of the Cunningham scandal, Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade, and their associates."
His campaign team needs to tidy up their site if they want to present an effective national campaign.
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