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.
Are these people being bribed?
The sad thing is, they dont HAVE to be bribed. The simple obvious truth is staring us in the face,,,, they hate America, and their sincere sympathy lies with those who would bring America down.
It’s hard for nice people to comprehend,, but thats it.
Yes! He is very much like George Soros,.
Bloomie would disagree. He’s the modern Davos Man. Financiers, bankers,industrialists,technocrats, bureaucrats who have decided they know the direction the rest of the unwashed must take.He can’t be a traitor because loyalty to one’s homeland is so old school.
This is all about Bloomberg’s company getting and keeping access to Islamic countries for financial data, media, TV, print media which will be worth tens of billions over the next decade.
All six TV networks including Bloomberg and Fox are very much in bed with the Saudis. Keep watching TV and Hollywood’s crap - you are ensuring your kids and grand kids will be serfs and eventually will live under sharia.
BINGO! Someone here gets it. Don’t forget all the Saudi money in the other 5 US TV networks and how they bend over for Islam to gain access to the satellite including Fox.
If you were one of the 6 TV networks you would sell out 300 million with a destroyed economy for trillions and 1.8 billion islamic viewers.
I would not and I did have an offer post 9/11 from a moderate islamic country who wanted to partner up. I essentially told them to get ****ed and they were threatening to sick the State Dept and Dept of Commerce on me cause they had all the right connections. I told them to go for it. I told them post 9/11 that I had no interest in EVER doing business with a country in the Middle East.
Of course, Mr. Joshpe is right on target on this point, and would win his case if it weren't for the fact that the judge who will ultimately decide it will likely be a crony of the same cabal he's suing.
Its becoming apparent the Oligarchy is becoming Islamified...
“Bloomberg traded his soul and this project for Bloomberg Network access into the Arab world.”
Exactly. So did Fox/News Corp, TW/CNN, GE/NBC/CNBC/MSNBC, Viacom/CBS, Disney/ABC. ALL of American TV is at the Saudi trough in a big way.
Keep payin those cable and sat TV bills and keep watchin. Your TV viewership plus Oprah and others bashing Palin will insure the muslim gets reelected.
It’s separation of church and state.
Not separation of mosque and state.
Now pay your taxes, we need money for the GZ mosque.
/sarc(?)
Impeach hizzonah.
Impeach hizzonah.
Bingo...you’re on to it. I do recall reading something about that a few months ago. That’s the only thing that’s surfaced (barely) that makes any sense. Given he was never married, has no children, what the he$$ does he care about the future? It’s all about him, and now, and his ego, and his power, and his prestige, and the he$$ with everyone else.....but it still has to get built, and let’s see what kind of gonads the union workers have.
Thanks for clearing that up...wrong again on my part. I always thought he was of a different persuasion, if you get my drift, but I could be wrong on that too.
So the “separation of church and state” doesn’t app;y ot mosques?
What I find about most billionaires is that they never have enough.
OH, I think he’s very light in the loafers.
Only when it’s convenient.
Bloomers is a Crony-capitalist, nebbish, poor little rich boy, self hating jew, tiny buttwipe of a man...the only reason he is probably not a fag (the jury is still out) is that he has the greatest aphrodisiac of all time, billions of dollars....he decries the 2nd amendment, but whines about how the enemy’s first amendment rights to worship are being usurped....even though Islam is NOT a religion but a murder cult.. © Vaquero 2010
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