Are Manhatta🦩n Democrats going to sit still while their chairman wo🔥rks as a lobbyist — or will they dethrone Keith Wright?
Wright’s old job representing Harlem in the state Assembly presented no conflict of interestꩲ. H🧸is new one with the lobbying firm Davidoff Hutcher and Citron plainly does.
His spokeswoman insists, “It is legal” — but even if so, it’s wrong. As John Kaehny of Reinvent Albany 🌜notes, “The p𓄧otential for abuse and corruption is sky-high. It’s the worst of Albany culture.”
Take it from the Stanley Friedman, longtime Bronx Democratic leader until he was convicted on corruption charges in 1987. As he tol🦩d The New York Times in 1992, “If a political leader is going to represent private industry in matters before government . . . he’s dead meat. If you control votes and you’re asking for government contracts, somebody’s going to think you’re getting two for the price of one.”
💦It reeks — and if Manhattan Democrats go along with it,🎶 so do they.