Gail Masters Reimonenq

A LiveJournal user who commented on my post about the upcoming Council-at-large race over there (I cross-post YatPundit to my LiveJournal) said this about council candidate Gail Masters Reimoneq:

And please find something else to bash Gail Masters about. Being related to someone is not now, nor will it ever be a felony. My grandma used to say, "You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family." And I don't seriously that Marc Morial had a personal relationship with ALL of Pampy's family, considering the man has over forty (40) first cousins. Gail Masters is one of 12 siblings.

No, you can't pick your family, but you can pick your business associates, and Gail Masters Reimonenq picked Markey-Marc and his cohorts. As documented by Celcus at Some Came Running, this lady is in pretty tight with the Morial mob:

Her antics on behalf of the Morial clan with Nagin business partner and Gubernatorial candidate John Georges during the 2002 mayoral race are documented in my post from last week, Thick as Thieves.

A quick google search of her name led not to a splashy campaign ad, but to LA board of Ethics campaign finance ruling 2002-059, the top item and the one I cited in my post.

“Gail Masters” is listed as chairman of the New Alliance Business PAC, and the registered agent of the four bogus corporations and near the end of the document she is identified as “Gail Reimonenq” again, as the agent for the PAC.

Celcus' second post is quite interesting, as it documents how this particular PAC launched an ad buy attacking State Senator Paulette Irons during her 2002 campaign for mayor. This was the race where Markey-Marc backed his hand-picked police superintendent, Richard Pennington. Irons and then-businessman C. Ray Nagin were also running. The attacks against Irons helped speed the demise of her campaign, leaving the race for all practical purposes a head-to-head match between Pennington and Nagin.

Given Masters Reimonenq's very close affiliation with the Markey-Marc political organization, it's clear that this is more than just family ties. And also, given that she was involved in unethical behavior that got her find by the state ethics board, it's also clear that the apple didn't fall all that far from the tree.

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