ALBANY — The campaign arm of state Senate Democrats is using office space in a building owned by the city’s powerful teachers union.
Revelations of the cozy arrangement come as Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg are warring with the union over implementing a rigorous teacher evaluation system.
The United Federation of Teachers has provided the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee work space inside its building at 50 Broadway — right next door to the UFT’s headquarters.
Senate Dems acknowledged the rental agreement by reporting a $4,483 in-kind contribution from the union.
“We make contributions — this is just another way of making a contribution,” UFT boss Michael Mulgrew said.
Mulgrew picks up the tab for the office, phone, Internet and utilities and writes it off as a donation to the Dems, who moved in the day after Labor Day.
Whenever you hear about money and politics, it’s always corporate money, proving that the leftists who argue about it most aren’t really interested in getting money out of politics; they’re just interested in getting the money out of politics when it promotes something they don’t agree with.
And I’m sure the UFT members in the City of New York who haven’t had a contract in well over two years at this point (and have worked without threat of strike, unlike the scumbags at the TWU) are thrilled that the UFT is doing this while they should be pushing for a new deal with the city.