Subject: POLITICO New York Playbook: CUOMO aide in on DE BLASIO-Senate arrangement -- UBER upstate plan -- STREETCAR-FERRY competition?
From: "Azi Paybarah, Jimmy Vielkind and Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 05:27:55 -0600

04/27/2016 07:25 AM EDT

By Azi Paybarah in Manhattan, Jimmy Vielkind in Albany, and Mike Allen in D.C., with Daniel Lippman

CUOMOLAND KNEW TOO -- Top Cuomo aide was sent memo detailing de Blasio's 2014 fund-raising plans -- POLITICO New York's Laura Nahmias: A former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo was included on a July 2014 memo that outlined a coordinated fundraising effort to help Democratic candidates for the state Senate, and on subsequent email updates about that effort, according to sources who have seen those documents. The coordinated campaign - spearheaded by Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies - is now the subject of a criminal inquiry, following a referral by Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel at the New York State Board of Elections, who was appointed by Cuomo.

The July 2014 memo, written by campaign lawyer Laurence Laufer ... detailed how the coordinated campaign would be structured and run, and how it intended to comply with existing state election law. The recipients of the memo included Joe Percoco, a longtime Cuomo loyalist who served as a top aide to the governor until last year, and the state Democratic Party Committee, which is effectively controlled by the governor. ... Sources familiar with the coordinated fundraising effort said Percoco ... served as a liaison between the Cuomo campaign and the coordinated effort, and was involved with, and aware of, the efforts to set up the arrangement. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30965e7733e60074ff899bf7fb87a7a2f2031a53da87fccf8bcb 

DE BLASIO'S $82B BUDGET -- Cuomo, unmentioned, hovers nearby -- NYT's J. David Goodman and William Neuman: "Over all, the executive budget included an increase of 3.7 percent in city spending compared with the final budget approved last year. The mayor's current proposal must still be negotiated with and approved by the City Council. One hurdle already cleared since January was the looming cuts in state contributions to the City University of New York and the city's Medicaid costs, proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, but discarded in the final state budget deal. Mr. de Blasio never invoked the name of the governor, with whom he is locked in a bitter feud. Yet Mr. Cuomo was a
 recurring presence: The mayor repeatedly criticized the state for not making good on financial commitments or reducing the amount of financial support it gives the city. He referred to the state's actions as alarming and a danger to the city. 'God forbid there's bad times,' he said at one point. 'The state will be absolutely unaccountable to the people of New York City.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096c86ac56ac35ee697d89f56d29344c6ce7d43e593efa788e2 

TABS -- Daily News: "Blaz chose cronies over kids: Backed his own law firm in fight over lead-tainted project next to school" -- Post: "TRUMP WINS PRIMARY 'SWEEP' STAKES" -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096a7c16fcef44ce442cc46d260872d09332fac8659423de03c 

-- amNY: "BREATHE EASY! City's air quality improving every year: Report" -- Metro: "GIMME SHELTERS: City to pay $10 million to add two facilities in Queens and the Bronx." SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096d530b5978cbf20398c30691d93323de882587a59c1f9d6bc 

-- Newsday: "TRUMP, CLINTON ROLL ON" -- Village Voice, with a picture of Prince; "DEARLY BELOVED" -- El Diario [translated]: Matter of life and death

FRONT PAGES -- NYT, 2-col., above the fold with art: "TRUMP IN A SWEEP OF EASTERN STATES; CLINTON WINS IN 4; Aura of Inevitability Grows for Both - Sanders Wins in Rhode Island" -- WSJNY, 4-col., above the fold: "Budget Builds in Uncertainty" -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096c524c5b1a7ac9fc508d273f7566b8e0dd88123454b37e35f 

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Why was the state committee left out of such a meticulous report?" -- NYT's Jim Dwyer, about a leaked memo from the state Board of Elections, criticizing the mayor's fund-raising activity http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa309641a78f8ea775e93c55c595fda10d742759e07671323b2570 

BIRTHDAYS: Eric Gioia, former City Council member from Queens ... Dan Gerstein, Democratic consultant and president of Gotham Ghostwriters ... Sarah Armaghan, reporter at Newsday ... Adam Dickter, former Jewish Week reporter now at Dukas Linden Public Relations ... and Hannah Kim, comms. director for Rep. Charlie Rangel ... the late actor Jack Klugman, aka the Odd Couple's Oscar Madison ... Ulysses Grant, the 18th president whose national memorial is in Morningside Heights ... and the late Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader and wife of the late Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

SAVE THE DATE -- 5/24: The 116th annual Legislative Correspondents Association show will be on Tuesday, May 24 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Call 518.455.2388 for ticket details, and checkout this year's trailer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30969de4f321eada9433f79c5f9d7482388a3355b5009404ea5f 

INSIDE CITY HALL -- The new vending machine in the basement now takes credit cards, via @Slimongi: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096f1c29cf64797bbc2374a6d7cc47f8bb1ec9e1842f01f7672 

NEWS ABOUT NEWS -- Priya Anand has been hired as BuzzFeed's new tech and transportation reporter, according to BuzzFeed's San Francisco Bureau Chief Mat Honan. Previously, Anand worked as a consumer fraud and cybersecurity reporter for MarketWatch. 

UBER PLANS POST-BUDGET PUSH UPSTATE - POLITICO New York's Josefa Velasquez: With legislators set to return to the Capitol on Monday, Uber is planning a post-budget push to have car-hailing apps expand into upstate New York. "Like we've shown across the country, we will do whatever it takes to make sure that New Yorkers have access to ride-sharing like other people across the world," said Josh Gold, a former union operative who is now on Uber's policy team. The "whatever it takes" reference means that Uber is prepared to invest in a multi-million-dollar campaign to advance legislation before the Senate and Assembly that would allow the company to begin operating outside of New York City
 before the legislative session draws to an end in June, similar to what they've done in New Jersey and Florida. And it seems that on the legislative end, lawmakers are prepared to pass bills allowing apps like Uber and Lyft to begin operating in upstate cities. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096560c4edfdcd0b5e59649ba301fb88a5eeedf57007e9a79a2 

JCOPE SENDS REFERRAL TO SCHNEIDERMAN - POLITICO New York's Josefa Velasquez and Bill Mahoney: The state's ethics committee on Tuesday made a referral to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office for "possible criminal prosecution" related to Upstate Medical University. When coming out of executive session after the Joint Commission on Public Ethics' monthly meeting Tuesday, chair Daniel Horwitz said the agency had "made a referral of a pending substantial basis investigation relating to ... Upstate Medical Center to the New York State Attorney General for possible criminal prosecution." A source with knowledge of the inquiry confirmed to POLITICO New York that the investigation involved
 Dr. David R. Smith, the former president of Upstate Medical University. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096e1ee87d66353312d4ae488ba4d5da7abf33305f1c0fe5f27 

--JCOPE referred a case involving an employee of the state's Department of Taxation and Finance to Albany County District Attorney David Soares for potential prosecution. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096ca8d02026b242e60b283d1c58f277ca8fdda9e943b5f26e5 

BOE REPORT FULL OF HOLES -- Times' Jim Dwyer: "A scorching report by Risa S. Sugarman, chief enforcement officer for the State Board of Elections, said the de Blasio team had committed 'willful and flagrant' violations of the laws by using those committees. She sent it on to the Manhattan district attorney. Her document is remarkably assiduous in places, and filled with flagrant, or at least gaping, holes in others. For instance, Ms. Sugarman managed not to notice that the State Democratic Committee received $766,000 in 12 days in October 2014, much of it from organizations and people linked to Mr. de Blasio, and promptly spent it on a number of the same vendors and on behalf of the same
 candidates, according to reports filed with the elections board. Not a word appears in her report about the money that passed through that committee. As it happens, that committee is effectively controlled by the governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, who nominated her for her job. Why was the state committee left out of such a meticulous report? "I don't comment on confidential memos," Ms. Sugarman said. If we are going to criminalize politics, why spare one committee from the approbation heaped on others?" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa309641a78f8ea775e93c55c595fda10d742759e07671323b2570 

NYC BOE DIRECTOR APOLOGIZES FOR PRIMARY SNAFU - New York Daily News' Jennifer Fermino: "A week after the city's Board of Elections bungled the hotly contested presidential primary, its head apologized Tuesday - and promised that every eligible vote cast by affidavit would be counted. BOE executive director Michael Ryan said he wanted to 'apologize' if the screwups 'caused any amount of the public trust in the voter process in New York City to erode.' 'Despite what others may think, we run a clean shop here, and I can vouch for not only for my own integrity but for the integrity of our staff,' he said at the BOE's weekly Board of Commissioners meeting. The board voted to uphold the unpaid
 suspension of Brooklyn Chief Clerk Diane Haslett-Rudiano, who was blamed for many of the problems on Election Day. Some 37,214 people last week had to vote by affidavit in Brooklyn, where a misguided attempt to clean the voting rolls inadvertently knocked many people off the books." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30960eae7aefaa34eb7989b3da744434b332b58d3ee52a85b54c 

FLASHBACK, April 20 -- "No one was disenfranchised." -- Michael Ryan, New York City Board of Elections Executive Director, via Fox 5 New York: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096435305303db49d3223f987ee6437763edf777bacdd835c7a 

DE BLASIO BACKS LAW FIRM IN FIGHT OVER LAND NEAR SCHOOL -- Daily News's Greg Smith: "The moms and dads of P.S. 163 were shocked when Mayor de Blasio recently sided with a developer who wants to dig up a lead-tainted parking lot next to their Upper West Side elementary school. Then they learned that the owner of the toxic lot and the developer who wants to put a 20-story nursing home there were represented by Kramer Levin, the same law firm that's now representing the mayor in a growing federal probe over possible campaign financing violations. In fact, a Kramer Levin partner, Barry Berke, tasked with helping de Blasio fend off Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is also one of de Blasio's
 former campaign treasurers." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30968b742b7273d04054ee4775f1cdcfedefa9fa225dd625e59c

FIRM GETTING TAX BREAKS TIED TO BARRED COMPANY - Newsday's James Madore: "A local manufacturer of push brooms that was awarded tax breaks is operated by some of the same individuals who run a roofing company found by New York State to have underpaid its workers $277,000 in 2008-09, according to business records and an officer with both companies. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last month announced up to $200,000 in state tax credits would go to Super Sweep Inc. of Deer Park over 10 years if it completes an expansion in Huntington Station. The $4.5 million project involves purchasing a building and increasing the company's workforce by nearly sixfold to 35 people. Cuomo and other state officials were
 unaware of wage violations committed by FMS, a sister company in Huntington Town, when awarding the tax credits, officials said. FMS paid workers less than the prevailing wage, which led the state to bar FMS from government building projects for five years, according to the state Bureau of Public Work's debarment list. Despite FMS' wage violations, Empire State Development, the state's primary business-aid agency, said there is no reason to rescind tax credits for Super Sweep." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa309673cb2910a836c396ecfbead9f5ee317fe71552304c5ffa2e 

SPOTTED: State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, walking through Lincoln Plaza yesterday afternoon.

TALK OF WALL STREET -- Apple's fall -- Qz's Matt Phillips: "The disappointing earnings report issued by the colossus of Cupertino-excruciating details here from Quartz's own Mike Murphy, et al-sent Apple shares down by more than 8% in after-hours trading. That decline lowered the market value of the company by more than $40 billion, or approximately the entire market value of Netflix. ... The S&P 500 is a market-cap weighted index, which means the larger a company's market cap, the larger its representation in the index. And that means Apple ... is likely the largest position for even the most passive investors, who don't try to time the market or make big bets on specific stocks." 
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-- Times' Vindu Goel: "Nearly half of the smartphones sold in the United States are iPhones, and Apple may be reaching the saturation point among potential customers in other developed countries. Rival smartphone makers using Google's Android operating system continue to challenge the company with powerful, less expensive devices. Over all, Apple sold 16 percent fewer iPhones in the quarter compared with the same quarter last year. 'There's no question that Apple's best days are behind it,' said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at the Bernstein brokerage firm. 'The company grew at astronomical rates, and it's now so big that its ability to grow at those rates doesn't exist anymore.' ... Apple
 still generates tens of billions of dollars of cash every year. And the company said Tuesday that it would pass along more of that money to its shareholders. Apple said it would raise its quarterly dividend 10 percent to 57 cents a share and increase the amount of stock it buys back to $175 billion." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096057f2dbfef2fc0533428e019569a75af223378376fe573f6 

MEDIA MORNING -- "'NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt' Delivers Biggest Ratings Win in a Month and Claims Across-The-Board Victory for Week of April 18": "America's most-watched evening newscast averaged 8.146 million total viewers for the week, outperforming ABC by +442,000 (+6%) and CBS by +1.416 million viewers (+21%).

The NBC broadcast topped the competition every night last week in all key demos ... [Lester Holt] anchored live from the Middle East on Monday night following an exclusive interview with Defense Secretary Carter in Iraq; anchored from New York City on Tuesday during the New York primary; anchored from San Francisco after an exclusive trip to Alphabet's X Moonshot Factory; and anchored from Los Angeles on Friday." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096245953a79c31b817f6d1e0ea262aeb829318945182969862

--"'Special Relationship' - a new podcast about the US election from The Economist and Mic: "Hosted by The Economist's John Prideaux and Mic's Celeste Katz, 'Special Relationship' ... episode[s are] a conversation, combining deep dives into specific themes with broader perspectives provided by global and historical comparisons from both sides of the pond."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30966fbb4b4c6bd9ab03b96c42f203a9eb145ecafcc71c46648b

FIRST LOOK -- "SiriusXM to Create 'Convention Radio,' Gavel-to-Gavel Live Coverage of the Republican National Convention": "P.O.T.U.S. channel 124 will transform into 'Convention Radio' during the Republican National Convention. ... SiriusXM will be live from the convention floor to deliver full coverage and analysis of all the breaking news."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa30966302b9ab5b2ad6a7592345e5bab1c5cc1ca8b113f086418b

OUT AND ABOUT IN NYC: Political guests at the TIME 100 gala last night included Donald and Melania Trump, Jill Biden, Reince Priebus, Rand Paul, Samantha Power, Ehud Barak, David Koch, Christiana Figueres and Gabrielle Giffords. Toasts by Lewis Hamilton, Caitlyn Jenner, Melissa McCarthy, Denis Mukwege and Darren Walker. Pix: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096b3d6207b5eadd34d39253279298a795b17bb7d91c26dd307

--SPOTTED: Scott Kelly, Padma Lakshmi, Alexander Wang, Matt Lauer, Trevor Noah, Marina Abramović, Lindsey Vonn, Mark Kelly, Ben Falcone, Martha Stewart, Gayle King, Jenna Lyons, Wendi Murdoch, Mia Farrow, Charlie Rose, Perry Chen, Jenji Kohan, Matthew Weiner, Diane Paulus, Jason Robert Brown, John Green, Preet Bharara, Arianna Huffington, Pete Cashmore, David Chang, Marie Kondo, Danny Meyer, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, Obiageli Ezekwesili.

SPEED BUMPS -- Will de Blasio's BQX and citywide ferry help, or hurt, each other? by POLITICO New York's Dana Rubinstein: "Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks both his citywide ferry service (set to launch in 2017) and his Brooklyn-Queens streetcar (set to launch in 2024) will effectively knit hard-to-access neighborhoods into the fabric of New York City. But his two big transportation initiatives will also service many of the same neighborhoods, and some experts wonder whether their combined effect will be overkill, with the streetcar and ferry cannibalizing, rather than complementing, each other. The issue was raised, implicitly, in a city-commissioned report on the BQX that POLITICO New York
 published Friday." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096e8de7b526991358ed301cbb2d009de0b3976cfe2c90e0bee 

CAMPAIGN CASH-"Firm lobbying for permits donated $68K to de Blasio," by Post's Yoav Gonen, Frank Rosario and Bruce Golding: "A top exec at an 'incubator' office-space firm bundled the largest contribution to Mayor de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others - while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project, The Post has learned. De Blasio took in $68,750 collected by Arana Hankin, senior vice president of WeWork, which is adding residences to a building at 110 Wall St., where it rents communal and private offices, records show. The campaign cash that Hankin handed over to the mayor's campaign Jan. 11 included the maximum $4,950 each from
 WeWork co-founders Adam Neumann and Miquel McKelvey, and both of their wives. Meanwhile, WeWork spent $150,000 lobbying the de Blasio administration between April 2015 and February 2016, records show." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa3096d3ded04acc7a170d2ac3badfcdc8e1923bfbef164ae2fc6a 

THE HOME TEAMS -- POLITICO New York's Howard Megdal: Mets 4, Reds 3: Down 3-0 in the seventh, the Mets tied it on a pinch-hit three-run homer by Yoenis Cespedes, and took the lead on a David Wright RBI single.

-- Rangers 10, Yankees 1: Things did not go well for Luis Severino, who lasted just three innings.

-- The day ahead: Game 1 of Islanders-Lightning in Tampa. NYCFC hosts the Montreal Impact. The Mets host the Reds. The Yankees are in Texas.

#UpstateAmerica: Despite being more than a month into spring, it snowed in the North Country Tuesday. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=21c3d0fbb3aa309664e4e5c24d133252268319daecf07091b0a92082ded31770 

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