Will they get their money’s worth?
Cash poured into Bill de Blasio’s mayoral campaign from unions, developers and special-interest groups hoping to advance their agendas.
De Blasio took in a total $10.6 million in donations, and so-called independent spending groups shelled out even more to bash his opponents or to support his effort.
What did they get in return? For some donors, not what they expected. Opponents of the carriage-horse industry, for one, wanted the buggies off the streets at the start of a de Blasio term, but they are rolling along.
Here are some of de Blasio’s biggest supporters and the issues they care about:
1199 SEIU Healthcare Workers East
How much: $208,000, plus at least $1 million spent on mailings to its members.
What they wanted: The giant health-care workers union fought to keep open Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, among other issues.
Result: Fail. As a candidate, de Blasio voiced his support for maintaining the Cobble Hill hospital, even getting arrested during a protest last year. But under a court settlement reached last week, an emergency room will remain open but the full-service hospital closed for good.
Yellow-taxi industry
How much: At least $550,000.
What they wanted: To keep green taxis off the streets of the outer boroughs.
Result: Fail. De Blasio opposed green cabs as public advocate but named Meera Joshi, a supporter of green cabs, as his Taxi and Limousine commissioner. Rather than slowing the rollout of the green taxis, licenses for 6,000 of the cabs will be issued this summer.
Carriage-horse opponents
How much: At least $1.3 million to support de Blasio and to promote City Council candidates opposed to the industry.
What they wanted: To banish carriage horses from Central Park.
Result: Fail. The mayor said ridding the streets of the iconic horse and carriages would be among his first acts in office. The carriages are still on the street and, with a campaign to keep them there with supporters such as Liam Neeson, they show no sign of riding off into the sunset.
Real estate industry
How much: More than $550,000 from developers, realtors and property owners.
What they wanted: Many in the industry jumped on the de Blasio bandwagon after his primary win in order to align themselves with the likely victor.
Result: Too soon to tell.
Airbnb
How much: $24,950.
What they wanted: The three founders of Airbnb each gave de Blasio the maximum $4,950 donation as did one of Airbnb’s investors and his wife. Another company worker kicked in $200. The apartment-sharing site has been battling regulators over the legality of offering short-term rentals in New York. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed Airbnb’s Web site to turn over the names of its users.
Result: Mixed. Under an agreement reached last week, Airbnb has to relinquish rental data stripped of user names and other identifying details. The AG can request more data to pursue investigations.
Affordable housing advocates
How much: $13,850
What they wanted: Lisa Gomez of L&M Development Partners, bundled $13,850 for de Blasio to support more affordable housing.
Results: Victory. De Blasio unveiled a 10-year, $41.1 billion plan to create more affordable housing including a requirement for some builders set aside units for low and middle-income tenants.
Labor unions
How much: More than $1 million.
What they wanted: A coalition of private and public unions kicked in $1 million to New York Progress, a committee that bought ads in opposition to de Blasio’s Republican rival Joe Lhota. With more than 100 municipal union contracts open, labor had a big stake in the new administration.
Results: Too soon to tell. Many contracts are still being negotiated, but the powerful United Federation of Teachers claimed victory in its newly struck deal that would provide for 10 percent salary increases over seven years.