Politics & Government

Democratic Activists Fundraise to Thwart Quinn's Mayoral Campaign

The anti-Quinn coalition so far has raised more than $1 million

 

A coalition of left-leaning labor unions and Democratic activists has pledged more than $1 million on a campaign to block Christine Quinn’s New York City mayoral campaign, The New York Times reports.

The anti-Quinn coalition, called “NYC Is Not for Sale 2013,” is not aligned with any of Quinn’s opponents and claims to be backing no one in particular.

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NYC Is Not for Sale 2013 has used $250,000 of the total money fundraised towards an initial 30-second television ad that starts today and will run on cable television stations like MSNBC and Bravo for three weeks. Another commercial is set to air later this week, followed by several mailers and radio ads.

The first commercial portrays Quinn as a political waffler who fails to support a true leftist agenda: “She wants you to think that she’s a progressive, but on the issues New Yorkers care most about, she is always on the wrong side,” says the ad’s narrator… “All that’s clear when the smoke lifts is her political ambition.”

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NYC Is Not for Sale 2013 appears to be a successor to a group that actively opposed Mr. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election bid, reported the paper.

However, the coalition also includes Democrats who had previously been major donors to Quinn, as well as NYClass, an animal-rights group that has bumped heads with Quinn over horse-drawn carriages and other issues.


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