Posted on 12/26/2010 3:55:07 PM PST by onyx
E-mails and other public records requested by opponents show a Bloomberg administration acting behind the scenes on behalf of the Park51 project — aka the Ground Zero Mosque — and a development board member looking for “political cover” before allowing the project to go forward.
Bloomberg administration officials are working “very closely with the organizers of the project. . . to combat public opposition and navigate various governmental hurdles.” One administration official even ghost-wrote a letter for Park51 organizers.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
In one email from May, Shelly Friedman, the organizers’ lawyer, wrote that Manhattan Community Board 1′s vote in support of the project would be helpful as organizers urged landmark commission Chairman Robert Tierney and other panel members to reject landmark status for the building currently on the site. “I do know that chairman Tierney was looking forward to having the ‘political cover’ their support would bring him,” Ms. Friedman wrote.
Brett Joshpe, counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, one of the groups that sought the documents and is suing the city, said Ms. Friedman’s email is telling.
“Our allegation all along has been that politics tainted this process and that the Landmarks decision was not actually based on a faithful review of the architectural or historical value of the building but based upon political influences,” Mr. Joshpe said.
The exchange of emails also reveals how heavily involved the administration was in the project’s development. One email shows that Nazli Parvizi, the city’s community affairs commissioner, drafted a letter that Daisy Khan, the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, wrote to the community board. City officials also intervened to help the organizers get permits to conduct prayers at the site. In one email, organizers agreed to help fund a 2009 Ramadan celebration at Gracie Mansion.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said the emails are proof that the mayor’s staff was coordinating with the Islamic center’s leaders.
“They were getting press advice from the mayor’s office, they were editing letters for them,” he said. “They were advising them on the all important landmark issue.”
“They were told what to do in order to get approval and there was never any question of getting approval,” he said. “It was obviously political.”
More here.
This is the guy they think they’ll use as a “Ross Perot” to help Mr. Obama and hurt Governor Palin in 2012?! Hahahahaha! Please go ahead and do it!!
I wonder what’s in it for Bloomin’idiotberg; it can’t be the money since he’s got billions....hmmmmm....I wonder if they have some dirt on him he doesn’t want revealed.....he’s a traitor to his own people and America if he’s in bed with the muslims....uh oh....what were the pictures of again?
The next step is to find out which pol is getting a fat check from somebody.
This mayor is a traitor who would sell his mother if he could make a dime by doing it.
Just follow the money trail, America is second to the money he can make while on his knees to his mideast clients.
Yep, Bloomberg is the designated, “self-financed, NO-LABEL, third party-champion” to run against Sarah Palin to split the Republican/Indpendent vote so that the Marxist can eek out win.
Bloomberg is a valued member of Team=Marxist-obama.
Bloomberg has a major hub for his Bloomberg news/fianacial services in Dubai.
Right. He is a traitor and he’s had a huge financial hub in Dubai for almost two decades.
A friend of mine in NYC said she saw OBL walking down East 17th St sipping coffee last weekend. The man she said was the spitting image but perhaps a few years younger. I did a google search for ‘OBL in NYC’ and got OBL Architects in NJ.
Bloomie got slammed on this by a caller on Friday’s Gambling Show. His response was “So what!!!” The caller was told to worry about more important things.Bloomie does this for everyone.
Traitors to America.
YIKES!
Bloomberg doesn’t care!
He’s catering to Moslems and his own business interests!
TRAITOR.
Yep the N0-labels fix is in to Perot things up for this country.
“I wonder what’s in it for Bloomin’idiotberg; it can’t be the money since he’s got billions....”
Wrong buckeroo.. it’s money.
Bloomberg traded his soul and this project for Bloomberg Network access into the Arab world.
I’ve long contended that a short, divorced, Jewish billionaire could never be president. Add in his inexplicably acting as a front for murderous anti-American Jew-haters, and I’d have to say his political future will track that of George Soros...financier and conspirator, but never the banner carrier.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
I'm not so sure.
I've followed Bloomberg's business for the decades I've used his terminals, and the media end of his empire is AFAIK a money loser. It's a huge vanity project, financed by the oceans of cash thrown off by his financial technology enterprise.
The real Arab money is parked and managed in London. The volume of financial business executed in the Arab states is far too small to justify the Mayor's bizarre promotion of the victory mosque.
I *wish* money alone could account for the Mayor's sell-out of his religion, city, and country. I fear something worse.
Are these perople being bribed?
But i thought the state promoting a religion, and having it’s minions working for the benefit of one specific religion, was BAD.
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