Billboard Protector de Blasio Gets Bucks from Billboard Owners

Remember the other day how Councilman Bill de Blasio was all, 'Leave billboards ALONE!' because, he says, the Department of Buildings has been slapping billboard owners with huge fines over supposedly minor infractions? And some of you cynics in the audience were quick to insinuate that the honorable gentleman from Park Slope was only making a stink because he's in bed with the outdoor signage industry? Well, maybe you were right. Just days after calling attention to the vast hardships endured by billboard owners, de Blasio, who is running for public advocate, has accepted $8,000 in campaign donations from billboard companies, the Post reports. Not too shabby! Maybe this will motivate de Blasio to finally do something to protect the poor tobacco industry and persecuted fast food restaurants and the defenseless auto industry?

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By John Del Signore in News on March 5, 2009 12:23 PM

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JacqueMehoff

you blew it De Blasio.

now you're no better than the other scumbuckets.

the billboard owners are not under any hardships, they're usually ad agencies.

thefacts

Good investigative work by the Post!

de Blasio is running for Public Advocate and this action as whore for the ad industry should kill any chance he has and any claim that he can advocate for the public.

fugothamist

a scumbag from Park Slope?

i'm shocked

NannyState

More like he reported "$8,000 in campaign contributions", but "accepted" considerably more. Just keep them liquor and cigarette Billboards in Bed Stuy and the Bronx comin'.