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To: Neocon who wrote (68192)	12/22/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Neo, check this out. An unelected political operative takes over 60 million dollars of the peoples money from an elected official of a major American city. The Democrats must be getting pretty desperate. Hillary must not be getting enough contributions. How sad.... Article.... Cuomo v. Giuliani? Housing Secretary Makes End-Run Around NYC Mayor By Susan Jones 22 December, 1999 (CNSNews.com) - It's recently been mentioned in conservative circles that if Hillary Rodham Clinton drops out of the race for New York's US Senate seat, Andrew Cuomo - President Clinton's Housing Secretary - may be ready and willing to run in her place, and depending on how you read it, that theory gained more credibility Tuesday. Cuomo pulled rank on New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - the expected Republican senatorial candidate -- by revoking the city's authority to distribute $60 million in federal money (taxpayers' dollars) to groups that provide services to the homeless. Cuomo says his agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will parcel out the money directly - in what's described as an unprecedented move. At a hearing on New York City's homeless initiatives Tuesday, Cuomo accused the Giuliani administration of blocking certain groups from receiving federal funds - because those groups have criticized the mayor, Cuomo said. "We think this remedy, while dramatic, is necessary to make sure the politicizing of the process ... is stopped," said Cuomo. At the very least, Cuomo is a strong supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore, so the argument about "removing politics from the process" doesn't stand up, and Giuliani was quick to point that out. "There's no question that Andrew Cuomo runs a major-league political operation," Giuliani said. "In essence, he wants to take over and give the money to his political operatives -- to the people who work on Democratic campaigns, support Democratic campaigns." "I would have to be extremely naive -- and I'm not -- to think that there isn't a strong connection between the politics of handing money out and what Andrew Cuomo has done here," Giuliani said. The mayor said he cut off funding to some housing groups - including Housing Works and the Coalition for the Homeless -- because of their questionable financial practices. They're nothing but patronage mills, Giuliani said. Cuomo insists he had no political motive. He said he was prompted to act by last month's federal court ruling, in which a judge ruled that the city wrongly blocked federal funds to Housing Works because the group had criticized the mayor. But politics worked its way into the argument Tuesday evening, when Andrew's wife, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo - one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's children - proudly announced her husband's decision at a state Democratic Party Christmas gathering, which Mrs. Clinton attended. The New York Post reports the crowd cheered. In recent weeks, homelessness - an issue close to the Housing Secretary's heart -- has jumped back into the headlines as a major social concern - a concern that had all but disappeared in the past seven years of prosperity, when a Democrat occupied the White House. Two recent cases - a homeless man attacking a young woman in broad daylight in New York City, and the Worcester, Massachusetts warehouse fire allegedly started by a homeless couple - also brought renewed attention to the issue of homelessness. Mayor Giuliani has been harshly criticized for making the observation that the streets are places for people to sleep, and for his recent directive that homeless people be arrested if they refuse offers of shelter. The mayor also ran into flak for proposing a plan that would force able-bodied homeless people to work for shelter.