http://nypost.com/2015/08/13/gal-pal-of-top-de-blasio-aide-hired-for-cushy-150k-a-year-gig/
Mayor Bill de Blasio created a $150,000-a-year job to boost his national immigration agenda — and then the cushy position was handed to the live-in girlfriend of one of his most trusted aides, The Post has learned.
Stephanie Yazgi, 38, the longtime partner of senior mayoral aide Emma Wolfe, 35, was hired in May for the unadvertised position of “campaign director” in the mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
“That’s just a made-up position,” said one Democratic insider. “It makes no sense. They create a position for her for $150,000 that’s a redundancy.”
Yazgi will be responsible for “overseeing the mayor’s national organizing efforts on immigration, specifically the Cities for Action on Immigration coalition,” according to a job description provided by City Hall.
The position was initially to be funded by a private grant, but because of “delays,” taxpayers will be footing the bill instead.
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM FUNDED BY SOROS AND THE LEFT
According to the Huffington Post, EIT is running a $250,000 advertising campaign in favor of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. Even so, EIT admitted to Breitbart News it does not legally exist as an incorporated political entity or non-profit organization but said NIF is the group that “facilitates” its activities.
NIF is a power player in immigration politics, and includes among its leadership some of the most powerful Washington figures on the issue.
In 2009, OSI donated $257,152 to NIF aimed at “implementing immigration reform campaign through communications, policy, and field organizing.”
Also in 2009, OSI donated another $1.5 million to “allow” NIF to “manage and lead Four Pillars Campaign for comprehensive immigration reform, and sustain core policy work supporting and leading policy efforts.”
A year later, in 2010, Soros’s OSI gave NIF another $1.5 million over two separate grants both intended for “general operating support.”
NIF has also received $1 million total from the leftist Ford Foundation, spread over two separate half-million-dollar grants in 2009 and 2011. Those grants were both intended for advocacy in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.
SOROS-BACKED, BUSH-LED IMMIGRATION GROUP PLANS ATTACK AD FOR CNN DEBAT
The National Immigration Forum Action Fund (NITAF) is preparing to air ads that will attack GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)96%
for championing immigration positions that serve the interests of Americans.
https://immigrationforum.org/programs/forum-action-fund/
The National Immigration Forum Action Fund is a separate organization from the National Immigration Forum, reporting to an independent Board of Directors. The Action Fund was formed to increase the profile of policy issues that matter to immigrants, and to influence federal legislation to ben
150k in NYC will buy you a case of beer and a couple packs of smokes