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Follow The Money Behind The Faith Based Affordable Housing Act

Follow The Money Behind The Faith Based Affordable Housing Act

Who's giving money to the guys peddling New York State's proposed Faith Based Affordable Housing Act?

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B.J. Mendelson
Apr 16, 2024
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The Baby Boomers among us may remember the famous line from “All The President’s Men,” which was “Follow the money.”

The line was an invention by a screenwriter everyone should read about, William Goldman, who also coined the phrase, “Nobody knows anything.”

That phrase by Goldman, by the way, has been horribly misused in the 21st Century. but when Goldman said it, he was talking specifically about the movie business and why some movies are hits and other movies are flops.

For those of you unfamiliar with the film, or the book it was based on, “All The President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, here’s what you need to know:

In the book, Washington Post Reporter, Bob Woodward, said, “The key was the secret campaign cash, and it should all be traced.” Woodward said this in a conversation with then United States Senator Senator, Sam Ervin. Ervin was the chair of what has become referred to historically as the Watergate Committee. The two of them were discussing Woodward and Carl …

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