Whatever Hillary wants, Hillary gets from the poobahs who oversee Roosevelt Island’s memorial to Franklin Roosevelt.
Hillary Clinton will officially launch her campaign next Saturday with a big event at the state-owned Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island.
The rally displaced an “Imagination Playground” event for kids, which had to be rescheduled for October.
The park is overseen by a conservancy with a board of directors packed with prominent Democrats.
The conservancy’s president, Sally Minard, is a longtime Clinton fan and fund-raiser. She was a “coordinator” on Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign and gave $6,900 to her 2008 presidential campaign, federal records show.
Minard was also a big “bundler” of donations to President Obama’s presidential campaigns, gathering a total of $511,098 from various donors, the campaign-finance monitoring Web site OpenSecrets.org reports.
So far, public records don’t show any donations by Minard to Clinton’s 2016 campaign. The Upper East Side resident took no salary from the conservancy in 2013, records show.
The conservancy board’s chairwoman, Barbara Shattuck Kohn, is also a longtime Clinton supporter. She also contributed $6,900 to Clinton’s 2008 campaign, records show.
Other Democrats on the conservancy’s board include former City Council member Jessica Lappin, former Ambassador William vanden Heuvel and his daughter, Katherine vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, a liberal magazine.
Conservancy officials could not be reached Saturday.