New York Post

Selling City Hall

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The Post’s Rich Calder just made it blindingly clear why Mayor de Blasio is having so much trouble compiling that long-promised list of the “stunning number” of his campaign donors who’ve gotten no special favors from City Hall.

The “stunning number” is how many did get repaid. As Calder reported Monday, at least 67 of the 102 bundlers for de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign reaped various political rewards from City Hall.

That’s fully two-thirds — and those who didn’t manage to snag a favor mostly were responsibl­e for donations of $10,000 or less.

The big-bucks bundlers, on the other hand — who raised up to $236,425 for de Blasio”s mayoral run — wound up with something to show for it far beyond the joy of backing a winning candidate.

Some of those bundlers wound up with appointmen­ts to various political committees, like lawyer Jay Eisenhofer and Broadway Stages CEO Gina Argento, whose husband has charged she was pressured to donate and raise money.

But four of de Blasio’s top 10 bundlers were lobbyists and advocates for the taxi industry and got private sitdowns from the new mayor, who then pushed a crackdown on Uber and other app-based ride-hail companies that compete with yellow cabs.

Another was the mayor’s cousin, the cofounder of a hotel-workers union that has been aided by a similar de Blasio crackdown on Airbnb apartment rentals.

Yet another big bundler, Charles Hocking, got the most obvious favor: $146 million in city contracts for his engineerin­g firm since de Blasio took office.

None of this comes as any surprise. It’s been obvious since Day One that donors and power-brokers like the mayor’s “agents of the city” call the shots at City Hall.

Which is why Manhattan DA Cy Vance, in declining to bring criminal charges over the mayor’s fund-raising, said some of his actions violate “the intent and spirit” of the law.

And why that op-ed piece the mayor promised listing his unrewarded donors is likely to be a very short one — if we ever see it at all.

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