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Wannabe ‘Climate Mayor’ Bankrolled by Dad With Massive Carbon Footprint
New York Post ^ | May 31, 2021 | Julia Marsh

Posted on 05/31/2021 4:35:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan says he’d be “the climate mayor,” but his multimillionaire dad, who’s funding his long-shot City Hall bid, is the opposite of an environmental steward.

Michael Donovan — who has given $6.8 million through a super PAC, making him the single largest donor in the entire mayoral race — owns three homes, a gas-guzzling private jet, and once destroyed wetlands in front of his $18 million Bridgehampton estate.

“If candidates are taking money from polluters, they are making a big mistake because people suffer,” said Maritza Silva-Farrell, head of the New York umbrella environmental group ALIGN.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: align; bridgehampton; carbon; climatechange; climatemayor; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; juliamarsh; maritzasilvafarrell; michaeldonovan; newyork; newyorkpost; shaundonovan; wealthy

1 posted on 05/31/2021 4:35:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
has given $6.8 million through a super PAC

Democrat's campaign finance reform in action.

2 posted on 05/31/2021 4:44:05 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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He’s a demonRAT. Being a hypocrite and a scoundrel is a certainty. Sometimes we might not yet have specifics. But hypocrisy is a foregone conclusion.


3 posted on 05/31/2021 4:51:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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DemoNazis have different rules for themselves.


4 posted on 05/31/2021 4:54:37 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: nickcarraway
shades of Philip Rearden
5 posted on 05/31/2021 4:56:49 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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Former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan says he’d be “the climate mayor,” ...

The potholes are so big they swallow automobiles and crime is rampant, but dips*t wants to the be the climate mayor.

6 posted on 05/31/2021 5:20:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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The “climate” in Gnu Yak Sitty right now (and will be if the Demoncrats aren’t dispatched) will be putrid and rancid, at best.


7 posted on 05/31/2021 5:28:20 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe his dad buys a lot of carbon offsets like Bill Gates. /s


8 posted on 05/31/2021 5:55:58 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (PS Whenever you are stuffing Fulton County ballot boxes, election fraud goes better with Coca Cola!)
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To: nickcarraway

"So...this is how the riff-raff gets around."

9 posted on 05/31/2021 6:04:43 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: nickcarraway

do as i say, not as i do


10 posted on 05/31/2021 11:57:26 PM PDT by KingofZion
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