Hovering over Bloomberg's emphatic remarks on immigration, a story about helicoptering

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Briefing: Bloomberg, piloting. Joseph Reyes via nyc.gov

8:47 am May. 23, 2012

Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke extensively yesterday about the virtues of the New York immigration model, making a bottom-line case for liberalization of the rules on the grounds that foreign-born workers can fill jobs that native-born Americans won't, have skills that native-born Americans don't, and simply work harder than most American-born workers do.

As usual, he also framed his dissatisfaction with current immigration law in a criticism of both parties in Washington, jabbing the ostensibly liberal Obama administration in particular for actually stepping up deportation rates since the end of 2008.

But as is so often the case on days when Bloomberg decides to say something important, there were distractions too, of his own creation.

A couple living next to the 34th Street heliport filmed the mayor using the facility 16 times when it was suppose to be closed in order to cut down on noise and air pollution for nearby residents.

The footage is pretty clear and ABC's Jim Hoffer did a good job questioning the mayor about it. Bloomberg's answer was that, to his recollection, the facility is open on the weekends.

The helicopter story fits with the caricature of the mayor as a rich guy who thinks the rules don't apply to him, which sometimes doesn't seem like a caricature at all. 

Other possibly troublesome stories for the mayor: The company running the parking facility near Yankee Stadium is faltering financially, and creditors just hired Rudy Giuliani's firm to try to straighten things out. The deal, which involved city and state subsidies and tax-exempt bonds from the city's Industrial Development Agency, looks in hindsight like an awful idea.

And federal prosecutors are investigating the nonprofit company that once provided glowing job-placement numbers for Bloomberg.

Events

12 noon: Adam Clayton Powell IV will endorse Rep. Charlie Rangel for election in NY-13 at 125th and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.

12:30 p.m. The Taxi and Limousine Commission testifies at a CIty Council budget hearing on the 16th floor of 250 Broadway

7 p.m. Clyde Williams, Adriano Espaillat, Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley are confirmed attendees at a NY-13 candidate's debate at 110 Cabrini Blvd.

7:25 p.m. Bloomberg speaks at the World Resources Institute Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental.

8:15 p.m. Bloomberg attends the Rangers Eastern Conference Finals Game 5 against the Devils at the Garden.

Quinnipiac in Florida

The poll:

47-41 Romney leads Obama in Florida

49-41 Romney-Rubio over Obama-Biden

44-36 Romney over Obama among independents

42-40 Obama over Romney among Hispanics

59-35 Romney over Obama in households earning more then $100,000

45-50 favorable / unfavorable for Obama

36-42 favorable / unfavorable for Biden

44-35 favorable / unfavorable for Romney

44-24 favorable / unfavorable for Rubio

2012

Michael Bloomberg criticized Obama for deporting more immigrants "than the last four or five presidents put together." [David Seifman]

Flashback: Bloomberg aides floated the idea that he may make an endorsement in the presidential race. [David Seifman]

Cardinal Dolan keeps up his criticism of Barack Obama. [Carl Campanile]

Judith Hope: "It's important to make the point that President Obama did not go after equity capital per se. He went after the Bain corporation because Mitt Romney is running on his experience as a business man." [Inside City Hall]

NY-13

"We're going into Adriano's base": A Rangel insider claims the endorsement of Giullermo Linares, a Dominican-American assemblyman who is running for Espaillat's State Senate seat. [Carl Campanile]

"But one thing Charles B. Rangel almost never does is identify himself as a Hispanic man, even though he is half Puerto Rican." [John Eligon]

Headline: "Charles Rangel touts his Puerto Rican roots in primary battle against Latino challenger Adriano Espaillat" [Tina Moore]

City Hall

Bloomberg broke the curfew at the 34th Street Heliport, angering neighbors. [Dan MacLeod, Dan Mangan and David Seifman]

Ron Sticco, a neighbor, filmed Bloomberg breaking the curfew 16 times.

"It's my understanding that it's not closed on the weekend," Bloomberg said. [Jim Hoffer]

Seedco, a company once favored by City Hall for job-placement services, is now being sued by federal prosecutors. Trouble with Seedco has been documented by the Times and Department of of Investigation. [Michael Powell]

Bloomberg should spend money for ads defending his agenda, since no one else is motivated to defend his record anymore. [Michael Goodwin]

Rudy Giuliani's law firm was hired to fix problems with a city-facilitated parking deal connected to the Yankees. [Juan Gonzalez]

Albany

Gun manufacturers who oppose micro-stamping of bullets, which Cuomo and Bloomberg support, got more than $6 million in state fund to create jobs. [Ken Lovett]

The man accused of being former state senator Carl Kruger's "bag man" was sentenced to two years in prison but would have gotten longer if not for his weight-related health problems. [Bruce Golding and Rebecca Rosenberg]

Racing

Long Shot: I'll Have Another has a better chance of winning the Triple Crown than Cuomo does of reforming NYRA. [New York Post]

NYRA's 25-member board will be replaced with 17 members. Cuomo will pick seven, and the chair. [Ken Lovett]

Cuomo's takeover of the agency comes ahead of the June 9 Belmont Stakes. It's not known if any of NYRA's current board members will sit on the new board. [Joe Drape]

Front Pages

LCA Show

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Andrew Cuomo drops his long-running avoidance of the show and makes an appearance at the hotel before the curtain goes up. [@CapitalTonight]

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Erik Kriss as Carl Kruger. [@DNDailyPolitics]

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The state comptroller and Jimmy Vielkind. [@DNDailyPolitics]

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Backstage. [@LisaFleisher]

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The guys. [@DNDailyPolitics]

Comments (1)
DaveFrancis wrote on May 23, 2012, 4:07 PM [Link]

New York governor Bloomberg yesterday suggested that the Obama administration import my workers, but not just the echelon of the most favored occupation, but less skilled that we don’t need. Bring in the top of the cream with the highest credentials and qualifications, but not the millions covertly annually amount of visas as so called skilled contenders for jobs. Partisan Senators have drafted to bringing more STEM workers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers to the U.S. What the politicians and pressure groups have failed to inform is that there are qualified, U.S. workers out there to fill these jobs. Within the United States Colleges and Universities are graduating many young people in the past week with degrees and no employment offers in sight. It’s time American voters turned up the heat on politicians, specifically where job visas are concerned. When thousands are seeking work, shouldn’t American labor be a priority. It certainly will be given heightened attention under the growing numbers of TEA PARTY leadership, which are taking the reins of power in the Senate and House.

California is sinking fast under the mushrooming impact of illegal immigration, as more these people pour into this state. How can other states that are hurting badly as Michigan, even believe this brainless argument from Mike Bloomberg, whilst the whole country is overrun with cheap labor, with the majority is soaking the welfare programs? In Michigan uncompensated costs for Illegal Aliens (2009) reported by The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) identifies at least $928,677,050. This should be a genuine concern throughout every state, excluding states controlled by Democrats with Liberal backing. In the opposite measure thousands of property owners are leaving the Golden State, now tarnished by a gross overload of foreign invaders. Many states are unable to comply with the strain of court ordered unfunded mandates, when taxpayers are hardly able to feed their offspring,

Arizona was one of the states that have drawn the line in the sand, when all they want to do is protect the legal population. But are forced by law to educate, treat illegal alien families for the common cold to dialysis for free. Do we personally have to feed, house and medicate every person who knocks on America’s door, when we can hardly feed our own? In Sacramento, California has been indulging these people with welfare programs, in the midst of Obama's government giving out food stamps? The Sanctuary state is under a terrible strain. In just Los Angeles Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich website published that illegal immigration costs were $550 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, a total cost to County taxpayers that exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year and that doesn't include the billions more in education for their children.

GO TO FAIR WEBSITE TO LEARN HOW MUCH MONEY FROM THE PUBLIC COFFERS IN YOUR STATE IS SPENT ON “FOOTHOLD” BABIES AND THEIR PARENTS? IT’S THE DOLLAR FIGURE THE DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF?

These billions are being spent to subsidize the lives of families who sneak their children into America, as these people are aware that the majority Democratic states will support them. Governor Jerry Brown, a ‘Tax and Spend’ liberal is once again pleading for more tax revenue, to pay for everything including the largest population of illegal aliens in the country. California should put an end to the states incessant need for more money to balance their $16 Billion dollar deficit. California the embodiment of Sanctuary States is withering under the constant bombardment of foreigners with their palms outstretched and with so much on the line for people; they have nothing really to lose by fraudulently voting in the upcoming elections. Democrats don’t care and even stealthily approving of this illegal act. ILLEGAL ALIENS, NON-CITIZENS, FELONS AND A MIXTURE OF ILLEGAL VOTERS ARE VOTING IN OUR ELECTIONS. THIS IS WHY OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T WANT TO CHANGE THE CURRENT ELECTORAL LAWS? IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT EVERY STATE IMPLEMENTS NEW RULES, THAT EVERY PERSON HEADING TO THE VOTING STATION POSSESS A GOVERNMENTAL PICTURE ID.

California’s legislative body, Nevada of all states should be required to use E-Verify? Not voluntary but all mandated? The Legal Workforce Act will usher in a new period of restrictive practices of business owners, using labor with stolen Social Security numbers and other ID. It should be the business of ICE to enforce E-Verify, so American jobs go to U.S. workers who have that legal right. Businesses that don’t play by rules, should be heavily fined, assets seized and in some severe cases, go to jail? Those who haven’t heard of the ‘Birthright citizenship Act’ should tell their elected officials from blocking this law from reaching the house chambers. The ‘Birthright citizenship Act’ laws when enacted stop around 400.000 illegal alien mothers gaining citizenship for their smuggled fetus into the United States. That citizenship for a baby will only be apparent, when one of either parent is a U.S. citizen?

Brown stated huge cuts can be anticipated in schools through K-12, when the schools are crammed with the children of illegal aliens, then so be it; you cannot get blood from a stone anymore? No more taxes, no more money to encourage any longer illegal immigrants. It is simply rewarding the parents’ in law-breaking and just encourages more to cross borders of fly in by international flight. The federal government has failed to secure the U.S. borders and it’s become too costly to provide schooling, hospital care, low cost housing and other public services to non-citizens. So far only Arizona has had the backbone to fight back, with Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah closing the ranks. No more taxes for Jerry Brown’s state government specifically for illegal alien support. Join a local TEA PARTY and throw out all the politicians that are giving our country away.

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