Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio — a vocal critic of police ticket-fixing — wasn't above doing favors for relatives and helping constituents get parking tickets dismissed, according to documents in his City Council archives.
The papers show de Blasio repeatedly went to bat for constituents over parking tickets and garbage fines, fighting to get them reduced or dismissed.
In June 2005, de Blasio — who has called for a deeper probe into the Bronx NYPD ticket-fixing scandal — wrote an e-mail to the Parking Violations Bureau on behalf of constituent Jeff Getz.
It said, "I recognize that double parking is illegal, however, as you know, double parking during street cleaning has long been an accepted practice in New York City."
The same year, de Blasio also directed his staff to help with an immigration snafu involving a man engaged to his sister-in-law's assistant in Boston.
The man "has run into immigration problems which may complicate the upcoming marriage," de Blasio wrote in a February 2005 e-mail, asking staffers, "Do you know any Haitian social service folks in the Boston area?''
The Village Voice said it finally got its hands on the public documents two years after they bizarrely disappeared from archives at La Guardia Community College.
The papers were gone for at least a year. They were among 17 boxes that were taken, supposedly for review by the City Council because of "confidentiality'' issues, the Voice said.
When the Voice got what papers were left — nine boxes — it discovered that the documents only went to the letter H.
The documents included very little correspondence from de Blasio himself. The papers are from his days as a Brooklyn councilman between 2002 and 2009.
Among the more quirky documents is a note to then-Chancellor Joel Klein, pushing for transcendental meditation in city schools.
"The technique is strictly a mechanical, natural procedure that allows the mind and body to settle down to a deep state of rest," de Blasio explained.
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