By: Jared Evan
While the race for NY Governor is months away, and interim Governor is Kathleen Hochul is up big in Democratic voter polls, while former NYC Mayor De Blasio officially decided not to run. The GOP side is starting to make some noise, after billionaire and political opportunist Harry J. Wilson jumped into the fray.
Wilson, who has served in several high positions in the Obama U.S. Treasury Department and on President Barack Obama’s Auto Industry Task Force and unsuccessfully ran against He was defeated by Democrat Thomas DiNapoli in 2010 for NY State Comptroller, recently launched a campaign for Governor.
It was quickly discovered that Wilson, made a $1000 contribution to radical woke leftist, Alvin Bragg, a year before he entered the race for Democratic candidate for Manhattan District Attorney. Republican candidates were quick to pounce on the Billionaire long shot.
“It doesn’t matter if he gave a penny or a million dollars. The donation certainly raises questions about whether the Republican Party wants a person at the top of the ticket for governor who supported a candidate for district attorney who was pro-criminal in the middle of a crime wave,” said former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, according to the NY Post.
“Anyone who donated to Bragg had to know he was running on a soft-on-crime platform.”
Meanwhile, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin, the GOP frontrunner, said, “I will never turn my back on our law enforcement officers and the New Yorkers they are sworn to protect.
“My support in the Manhattan District Attorney’s race was fully behind [Republican] Tom Kenniff and it’s unfortunate that Bragg is now in office refusing to prosecute many crimes at all across the board and downgrading many others.
“As Governor, I would remove the Manhattan District Attorney for his refusal to enforce the law. I fully support repealing cashless bail, enacting a law enforcement bill of rights, keeping criminals in prison where they belong, and much more.”
Long shot candidate, who has the backing of GOP losing candidate for Mayor Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Giuliani, has been making headlines urging New Yorkers to support his Change.org petition to try to oust Bragg. More than 9,000 people have signed the petition, NY Post pointed out.
NY Post reported:
Wilson confirmed to on Sunday that he gave $1,000 to Bragg on June 21, 2020 — about a year before the Democratic primary election for Manhattan’s top prosecutor — saying they were pals from their time together at Harvard University.
“I thought he would be a strong prosecutor as Manhattan DA based on his years as a prosecutor,” Wilson said, referring to Bragg’s career working as a Manhattan federal prosecutor and as the chief deputy Attorney General for the state.
“Wilson is a non-ideological billionaire trying to buy his way into the GOP political scene in NY, he reminds me of Ronald Lauder, a clueless billionaire who would donate money to anyone who he thinks will be influential, including a radical woke clown like Alvin Bragg, Wilson claiming he thought Bragg would be a strong prosecutor is evidence that he is clueless and just tossing his money around to try to become Governor ”, an unnamed NY Republican party insider told TJV News.
Wilson has worked for Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs. He later became a partner at Silver Point Capital before his retirement at the age of 36.] He joined Yahoo!’s board of directors in May 2012.
Wilson is the CEO of the MAEVA Group, an advisory firm he founded in White Plains, New York in 2011. In March 2021 he was appointed CEO of Genesis HealthCare.
