Bronx Press and the Riverdale Review Endorse Richard Brodsky for Attorney General

Press Release, September 09, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  September 8, 2010 Contact:  Jon Lipshutz; 914-332-4985 The Bronx Press and the Riverdale Review endorsed Richard Brodsky for Attorney General today, lauding him for his “long and admirable record,” citing examples such as congestion pricing, where Richard “almost single-handedly led the fight against Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan in Albany, a plan which most agree would have turned large parts of The Bronx into a parking lot for ...

EDITORIAL: Opportunity for revenue missed

Plattsburgh Press-Republican, September 09, 2010

We’re with Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) in finding Gov. Paterson’s veto of a bill to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 “mystifying.” Paterson vetoed a bill last week to create a War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. The commission would have promoted local celebrations all over the state to recognize the crucial part New York played in the winning of the War of 1812. (Some historians argue we broke even, but the British were unable ...

Assemblyman Voices Concerns About New Voting System

New York Times: City Room Blog, September 08, 2010

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky said on Tuesday afternoon that he had asked the Justice Department to assign observers to New York City for next week’s primary election because he was concerned that the use of a new voting method might result in “voter confusion and disenfranchisement.” On Sept. 14, a new computerized voting system will be used for the first time in the city, replacing the familiar clunky gray machines that voters have used for decades, standing inside a curtained ...

Attorney general hopeful Richard Brodsky up for the job

NY Daily News, September 08, 2010

Smart politicians know lunchtime at a senior center assures an attentive audience. So around noon Tuesday, Richard Brodsky, the bulldog assemblyman from Westchester County, suddenly appeared at the JASA senior citizen center in Rockaway Park, Queens - the second of three senior centers he visited in an hour in the same neighborhood. About 40 people were gathered around a half-dozen tables, waiting patiently for their lunch. Audrey Pheffer, the local assemblywoman, gave a quick ...

Assemblyman Brodsky, Our Next Attorney General?

IMAGE Magazine, September 07, 2010

Many things can and have been said about Assemblyman Richard Brodsky during his three decades in public service, but nothing compares to meeting with him in person. From the moment he walked through the door, Brodsky’s commanding presence and mastery of a wide range of issues was evident. Whether he was talking about his record of government reform, his environmental achievements or his daughter’s organ donation experience, it was apparent Brodsky had earned his reputation as a bright ...

Campaign Postcard: AG Candidate Richard Brodsky Makes His Bid to Be the ‘People’s Protector’

WNYC , September 03, 2010

Corruption and dysfunction have dominated the news out of Albany. So it should come as no surprise that the Democrats running for attorney general are all hitting themes of change. Veteran Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is counting on voters to remember his decades-long Albany record battling special interests and unaccountable public authorities. One recent Sunday, he came to Brooklyn’s Little Odesssa to a jammed street fair that went for blocks along Brighton Beach Blvd. To see the ...

From Bringing Anti-War Activism Into DC Committee Effort, Brodsky Discovered Legislative Process

City Hall, August 31, 2010

Formative Experiences Richard Brodsky, Staffer for Congressional Committee for a Vote on the War On Dec. 30, 1970, Charlie Goodell, the man who had been appointed to Robert F. Kennedy’s Senate seat and lost it to James Buckley two months earlier, spoke again, as he was often doing, about his opposition to the Vietnam War. With four days left in his term, Goodell asked for permission to submit an article that he called “an important investigation of the role leaders of my own ...