Christine Quinn gives your cash to West Side project - and gets campaign money
A celebrity-studded campaign to turn a rusting elevated rail line into a glitzy West Side park has received hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars through Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
And she's gotten a little something in return.
Officials with Friends of the High Line - the top recipient of Quinn-controlled City Council pork - have given more than $50,000 to her campaigns since 1999, records show.
More than half of the 19 board members of Friends of the High Line made contributions to Quinn and to her predecessor, Gifford Miller, who as Council speaker steered millions to the nonprofit founded by an old college chum. Employees of board members' firms kicked in, too.
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