Showing posts with label Yudelka Tapia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yudelka Tapia. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Yudelka Tapia Fined By COIB


  The Conflicts of Interest Board has fined Yudelka Tapia almost $5,000.00 for using her computer in her  office as a city employee for the City Comptrollers office to advance her failed city council campaign and successful campaign for Female District Leader in 2009,. The COIB fined Ms. Tapia $4,480 for using the city computer for sending out political e-mails and for other political campaign uses while on city time. 

  Ms. Yudelka Tapia also ran this past year in the 86th Assembly special election when the seat became vacant after 86th A.D. Assemblyman Nelson Castro resigned.  Castro wore a wire for federal prosecutors for five years in a sting operation to root out corrupt Bronx elected officials that netted only a freshman assemblyman after Castro was indicted for election fraud in 2008. It was not said if this fine was connected to this years campaign for the assembly by Ms. Tapia, only the 2009 City Council and District Leader positions.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

86th A.D. Results UPDATE


  With 100% of the vote cast on the lever voting machines in the 86th A.D. the results are the following.
  Any absentee or paper ballots done at a poll site will be counted starting on Friday.
 

 Victor Pichardo leads by 72 votes.

Candidate  Votes  Pct.
Victor Pichardo              1,195               22.7%
Hector Ramirez 1,123 21.3
Yudelka Tapia 1,000 19.0
Haile Rivera 885 16.8
Melanie Johnson 469 8.9
Elizabeth Ortiz 400 7.6
Keny Nunez 193 3.7



Monday, May 13, 2013

Yudelka Tapia Statement on Supreme Court Ruling


  
Statement on Supreme Court Ruling

- In a surprise ruling, the New York State Supreme Court, rejected a request by Tapia for City Council for the New York City Campaign Finance Board to review expenditure documentation from the 2009 election cycle. Ms. Tapia, who acknowledges that her campaign was late in filing the documentation, will appeal the ruling in the hope that CFB will review all her expenditures.
Tapia’s elections lawyer, Leo Glickman, issued a statement on the matter:
“During the 2009 campaign,  the Tapia for City Council campaign committee submitted to the CFB’s routine audit, was found to be compliant and was cleared to receive  public matching funds. All  campaign money – public and private - was spent in accordance with CFB rules throughout the campaign.
“During the CFB’s routine post election audit, Ms. Tapia’s son, who was also her Treasurer, became very ill and was repeatedly admitted to the hospital. As a result, the campaign was late in submitting documentation in response to the CFB’s routine request to substantiate the spending of public funds.  The campaign made a request to the CFB to scrutinize the documentation even though it was submitted late.  The CFB determined that it would not consider the documentation because it was late - not because money was spent inappropriately.
“Certain that the documentation shows that all money was spent in accordance with campaign finance regulations, we commenced  an action asking the  Supreme Court to order the CFB to scrutinize the documentation. We are disappointed that the Judge ruled that missing the deadline supersedes all other matters.
“Our appeal will ask for the same relief we asked the Supreme Court.  The campaign has not asked that the penalties it has received for its late response be overturned. We are only asking that the CFB not proceed as if the documentation was never received, and perform its Charter mandated audit to ensure that money was spent appropriately.  If they do so, we are certain that there will be no question about our full compliance with spending regulations.
Yudelka Tapia reiterated her regret for having missed CFB deadlines in 2009, “I am, as I have always been, sorry for not having submitted required documentation by the deadline imposed by the Campaign Finance Board and I look forward to paying the fine for this mistake. My only request is that the CFB review the paperwork I have submitted so that we can put this matter to rest.”
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Yudelka Tapia has been a district leader or state committee person from the 86th Assembly District since 2002. A leader in her community for 25 years and a member of AFL-CIO Local DC37, Tapia founded the first Dominican based Democratic Club in the Bronx. Yudelka raised four sons in the Bronx, served as president of their PTA and lives in East Tremont with her husband, Tito.
 
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Espaillat: "It's Not Over Yet"


     Wednesday Night July 3rd current State Senator and candidate in the 13th Congressional race Adriano Eapaillat told a packed room of supporters that the race for the 13th C.D. is not over yet. "We will fight until every vote is counted", and asked those in attendance to come forward with any problems that occurred at any poll site to suppress voter participation  be reported to the campaign if it has not already been done.  We were told that there were problems at poll sites in most of the district with the Tracy Towers and Fordham Hill poll sites at the top of the list.

    Espaillat said that the campaign is now in the technical phase, and legal process. He added that the campaign will be at the Board of Elections Thursday morning to watch the counting of the remaining ballots that have to be counted. Espaillat then thanked all the people who helped on the campaign from the Bronx, Washington Heights, Marble Hill, and any other part of the district. 

      Below are a few photos of the event. You can click on the photo to enlarge it.
Left -  Manhattan District Leader Mark Levine, Right - Bronx District Leader Yudelka Tapia speaking to the huge crowd.


Left - Espaillat as he is in the front of the room after thanking people who helped on the campaign. Right - Espaillat waits to be introduced to the crowd.


Left - The crowd roars as Espaillat is introduced. Right - Espaillat addressing the crowd on where the campaign is at the moment.

     



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