NY Times Picks up story Kingston Goodfellas Broke in 2014!!! Ulster County Democratic Committee In Hot Water-- Cardinale and Hayes Clement on Hot Seat, Must Stand Down and Resign in Short Order

Frank Cardinale circumvents election law with his pal Hayes Clement to try and secure a win for Senator Tkazck

First read this article by the NY Times just click this sentence.

Than click this sentence from 2014 a post our blog did on this almost two years ago!

Excerpts from NY TIMES:

The inquiry into the 2014 donations is based on a state ban on contributions to a party committee if they are given or solicited for a particular candidate, with an intent to evade individual contribution limits. Party committees can receive contributions of up to $102,300, far more than the $11,000 general-election maximum from individuals directly to for State Senate candidates. And the committees are not restricted in how much they can transfer to candidates.

In all, the Democratic committees in Putnam, Ulster and Monroe Counties raised at least $1.2 million in large donations from union political action committees, private companies and individual donors, state records show, and sent money to four Senate candidates in close races.

 Cecilia Tkaczyk, who received money in October 2014 from the Ulster County committee during her unsuccessful re-election campaign, said the state party’s efforts, which included fliers attacking her opponent, ended up working against her. She declined to comment on whether she had gotten a subpoena from state prosecutors, which people familiar with the investigation said had gone to some candidates in tight races that year.

NY DAILY NEWS excerpt:

The News previously reported the Ulster County Democratic Committee on Oct. 14, 2014, took in $364,000 from four labor unions and a Manhattan-based corporation. Days later, the committee turned around and sent the money to the campaign of Tkaczyk.

“Unions like the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, the state Nurse’s Association, and the Communications Workers of America were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though they never had before,” The News reported.

 The News reports that an email shows that Tkaczyk’s campaign manager Matthew Lerch contacted Hayes Clement, the treasurer of the Ulster County Democratic Committee, to find out if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared. “Below is our banking info, we need the 60 transferred over ASAP please,” Lerch wrote in the email, according to The News.

 Tkaczyk received a total of $330,000 from the Ulster County committee, The News said.

It's very clear that the Ulster County Democratic committee broke the law in a big way, it's a felony to give money to a party committee with the purpose of circumventing individual campaign contribution limits. That's exactly what happened! The committee under Dem Chairman Frank Cardinale accepted 330k to his committee and every penny of it was transferred to Senator Tkaczyk's campaign days later.

Hayes Clement was the treasure, he did what Cardinale told him to do, he owed Frank, Frank as City Chairman put his neck on the line for him in his unsuccessful run for Mayor. Cardinale asked Hayes to return the favor and he did. I feel bad for Hayes because a scum like Cardinale will have Hayes Clement take the fall, he's the treasure, he wrote the check!  It's so funny now to watch becasue when Hayes Clement ran for Mayor he ran saying he was this buisness leader with zero ties to the good ol' boy network and it was a lie all along. Shayne Gallo knew it and so did his supporters. Cardinale and Clement need to resign immediatly from their committee seats and executive postions. No one has given the Democrtatic Party in Ulster County a black eye the way these two have. People like John Parete and Shayne Gallo are vindicated more every day. Gallo may be a crazy psychopath but he's our crazy psychopath and more importantly say what you will about him, he's honest and above any of this shit here.

I don't get why Cardinale and Clement thought it was cool, they reported it as if they did nothing wrong. It would have been smarter if they gave the money in cash in a Macy's bag. If you're gunna break the law why leave a clear trail back to you. That's Cardinale's fault for firing Andrew Zweeben as the party's attorney. Not only would of Zweben advised against reporting this, he would have delivered the bag of cash to Senator Tkaczyk and there would be no proof.