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July 20, 2007
Marty's base includes Brooklyn developers (but not Ratner*)
Atlantic Yards Report
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, contemplating a run for mayor but not yet declaring for the race, has raised a respectable sum of money but remains well behind several rivals, as the Brooklyn Paper reports this week.
Among the donors of the maximum $4950, as the Brooklyn Paper notes, are developers Joe Sitt, Shaya Boymelgreen, Joshua Muss, and Dolly Williams, who just happens to be Markowitz's appointee to the City Planning Commission. (As an investor in the Nets, Williams recused herself from the Atlantic Yards discussion.)
Norman Oder pokes around looking for some Ratner-related contributions:
And where's the heavyweight, Forest City Ratner? We know that Bruce Ratner stopped giving campaign contributions but his brother Michael Ratner and sister-in-law Karen Ranucci, both Manhattan residents, have dutifully given to Brooklyn politicians. They haven't donated to Markowitz (yet).
But there is a $1000 contribution from Cheryl McKissack Felder, president/CEO of The McKissack Group, Inc. (Her name is misspelled "McKissick.") McKissack & McKissack, the nation’s oldest minority-owned professional design and construction firm, is the construction manager for the $182 million project to relocate the Vanderbilt Yard.
NoLandGrab: It would be remarkable if Bruce Ratner continued to funnel contributions through family members, now that Norman Oder has exposed the scheme.
Posted by lumi at July 20, 2007 10:27 AM