He’s in a New York mind-set.
Rocker Billy Joel has donated $50,000 to a brilliant PAC backing Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral bid, in response to data obtained by Web page Six.
The Piano Man — who made the donation on April 2 — has been a Cuomo backer prior to now. In 2018, he hosted a marketing campaign dinner for the then-governor, 67, at his Centre Island property in Oyster Bay. And in 2013, the music icon, 75, carried out at a Cuomo birthday fund-raiser at Roseland Ballroom.
Cuomo can be the godfather of one in all Joel’s daughters.
The $50K was donated through the William M Joel Revocable Belief.
In accordance with data seen by Web page Six, the Repair the Metropolis PAC has introduced in a whopping $250,000 from media mogul Barry Diller, in addition to one other $250,000 from Third Level hedge-funder Daniel Loeb.
Information present different donators embrace artwork world mega-collector Alberto “Tico” Mugrabi ($25,000), style mogul Micheal Kors ($50,000), former Donald Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital ($100,000), Miami Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross ($50,000), former Empire State Improvement chair Steven M. Cohen ($25,000), the Durst Group ($100,000), moneyman Glenn Dubin ($25,000) and Walmart heiress Alice Walton ($100,000).
Different $250,000 donors — in response to data filed with town’s Marketing campaign Finance Board — embrace Matthew Hulsizer, Suffolk Building Firm CEO John Fish, developer Peter High-quality, RXR CEO Scott Rechler and Halmar Worldwide.
As a PAC, there is no such thing as a restrict to how a lot a donor can contribute to Repair the Metropolis. (If a candidate needs to obtain in-kind donations from town, every donor can provide a max of $2,100.) One other PAC has been fashioned to help mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a lefty state assemblyman from Queens. Politico reported that Cuomo’s former rival Cynthia Nixon donated $5,000.
