New York, NY – A LEADING opponent of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion- pricing plan has received more than $40,000 in campaign contributions from parking-garage interests since 2001.
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Records show that David Weprin, chairman of the City Council Finance Committee, received 28 contributions totaling $40,650 from garage companies and their owners.
Garage operators are worried about losing customers if the city imposes an $8-a-day fee on cars entering Manhattan, and they want to stop the mayor’s plan in its tracks.
Austin Shafran, a Weprin spokesman, said the contributions had “absolutely nothing to do with his opposition to congestion pricing.” [post]