The co-founder of Netflix and the chief govt of New York’s largest well being care supplier are among the many newest enterprise titans to pour cash into a brilliant PAC boosting Andrew Cuomo’s run for mayor, contemporary filings present.
The filings, disclosed Tuesday, present Reed Hastings, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of Netflix, gave $250,000 to the pro-Cuomo PAC, Repair the Metropolis, on Might 22. His donation was listed in paperwork as being from each himself and his spouse, Patty Quillin.
The subsequent day, Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Well being, chipped in one other $10,000 to the PAC, the filings present.
Repair the Metropolis, which lately landed in scorching water with the town’s Marketing campaign Finance Board resulting from alleged improper coordination with Cuomo’s marketing campaign, has now raised greater than $9.8 million, disclosures present.
A serious chunk of Repair the Metropolis’s money has streamed in from billionaires and executives in industries like actual property, finance and lobbying. Only a couple weeks in the past, DoorDash, the meals supply app, contributed $1 million, the most important one-time donation the PAC has seen.
A lot of Cuomo’s mayoral race opponents have condemned the spending, saying the PAC provides him an unfair benefit within the race and poses an moral dilemma since a lot of its contributors have metropolis authorities enterprise pursuits.
Dowling’s donation comes as Northwell, New York’s largest well being care supplier, is actively lobbying the town authorities on a plan to increase its Lenox Hill Hospital complicated on the Higher East Facet, filings present. If elected mayor, Cuomo might have vital sway over that mission.
Repair the Metropolis, which is being operated by a bunch of Cuomo allies, has already spent some $5 million on TV and digital adverts boosting the ex-governor’s Metropolis Corridor bid. By legislation, the PAC can maintain elevating and shelling out as a lot because it desires so long as it doesn’t coordinate its actions with Cuomo’s marketing campaign.
