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September 12, 2009Councilman Bill de BlasioFriends of Bill de Blasio 2009320 Seventh Avenue, #278Brooklyn, NY 11215Dear Councilman de Blasio,I write again to express my concern regarding the secrecy and obfuscation regarding your campaign's relationship with the WFP and its affiliated entities. As evidence mounts, it seemsmore apparent that you and your associates are engaged in a massive cover-up to deny legallyrequired information to government agencies and the public.The Daily News has reported that the WFP’s mandatory pre-election filings with the State Boardof Elections have not been made. Thus, there is no way for the public to know how much moneyhas been put into Data and Field Services (DFS) to potentially subsidize campaigns such asyours.Just as I've urged you to have your campaign make full disclosure of its contracts, and to make public all documentation submitted to the Campaign Finance Board (CFB), I also urge you to publicly call on your vendor, the WFP, to immediately make its due disclosure.The CFB has raised very serious questions which in fact have not yet been resolved. The WFPhas been ruled indistinguishable from Data and Field Services, and yet has been funnelingmoney into the company, where its spending does not need to be disclosed. It is important for the public to know how much additional money has been put into DFS's coffers.Additionally, new revelations have been published, including the fact that you have been paiddirectly by a WFP-affiliated lobbying organization while you were a Member of the CityCouncil. It appears that after informing the city's Conflict of Interest Board (COIB) that youwould be paid $6,000, you were in fact paid $33,000 to call on the same editorial boards, politicians and organizations from whom you have sought support in this race, and that youfailed to disclose that the indistinguishable affiliates of your employer lobby the City Council onwhich you serve.A release of the letter you sent to the city's COIB to generate the published opinion isimmediately necessary, as is a full disclosure of what you did while being paid tens of thousandsof dollars by a lobbying group. Did you disclose to the COIB that the lobbying group iscontrolled by the same individuals and organizations who control the WFP and who lobby theCity Council? Did you disclose to COIB that the lobbying group shares office space with a political organization that lobbies the Council and endorses Council candidates? When
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