Reporters and bloggers throughout New York are taking notice of our campaign. Here are some of the best stories we've seen so far. If you see some great reporting we should feature here, please let us know at campaign@richardbrodsky.com. Press releases are archived separately.
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 ...
Extra Pay At Genesee County Economic Development Center Agency Questioned
WGRZ NBC Buffalo, August 28, 2010
An economic development agency in Genesee County is defending its extra compensation following an inquiry from Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, one of five Democrats running for attorney general. Read the letter the Genesee County Economic Development Center sent to Assemblyman Brodsky Extra pay for the top employees at the Genesee County Economic Development Center has grown from a combined $50,000 in 2005 to more than $91,000 in 2009, according to a letter from the agency obtained by ...
Pete Seeger to headline fundraiser for Brodsky
The Journal News: Politics on the Hudson Blog, August 27, 2010
Folk legend Pete Seeger will headline a fundraiser for Democratic attorney general candidate Richard Brodsky in Cortlandt Manor this weekend. Brodsky, a Greenburgh, Westchester County assemblyman, represented Seeger and other environmentalists in a lawsuit aimed at cleaning up the Hudson River. “We started to get to know each other in a well-known lawsuit that helped clean up the Hudson River,” Brodsky said in an interview this morning. “He is the conscious, the father of the ...
AG candidate touts mapping website that links possible deadly clusters to environmental factors
Staten Island Advance, August 27, 2010
A new cancer-tracking website linking possible cancer clusters to environmental factors was cited as a “valuable research tool” yesterday by one of the Democrats running for state attorney general. Tracking cancerAssemblyman Richard Brodsky, center, advocated for the creation of a new website, which aids scientists in tracking the possible correlation between cancer and environmental elements. With Brodsky are Assemblymen Michael Cusick, left, and Matthew Titone, who have ...
Richard Brodsky: “The People’s Protector”
The Journal News: Politics on the Hudson Blog, August 26, 2010
Here’s the first ad from attorney general candidate Richard Brodsky, the Westchester County Democratic assemblyman. Brodsky is one of five Democrats running for AG in the Sept. 14 primary. He also has a mailer out. The ad highlights Brodsky’s efforts as head of the Assembly Corporations Committee, such as going after polluters on the Hudson River. “We need someone who will protect us. That’s why I’m running for attorney general,” the ad starts. ...
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