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.
Energy Price Fixing
NBC 34 Binghamton, August 19, 2010
We begin with what one attorney general candidate calls an energy price fixing scheme. Reforming the way energy is bought and sold in New York State is one of the top priorities of current downstate Assemblyman and attorney general candidate Richard Brodsky. Brodsky says needed changes can save residents 15 to 20 percent on their NYSEG bills each month. Here’s the current set-up, something Brodsky calls price fixing at its worst. Companies such as NYSEG or Rochester Gas ...
Attorney General candidate Brodsky brings campaign to Ithaca
Ithaca Journal, August 19, 2010
In a five-horse race, it’s hard to stand out from the pack, but Richard Brodsky is confident his reputation as a reformer will allow him to nose ahead and become New York’s next attorney general when voters go to the polls in November. The Democratic assemblyman from Westchester was in the Ithaca area Wednesday to outline his strategy to become New York’s lawyer and work not only for the state’s administrators, but also for its citizens. If all voters want is ...
Attorney General Candidate Wants to Address State’s Issues
Utica Observer-Dispatch, August 18, 2010
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Elmsford, swept through the Mohawk Valley Tuesday as part of a statewide tour to try to succeed Andrew Cuomo as the state’s attorney general. That task will not be easy. Brodsky is in a five-way primary race for the Democratic line. So how does he differentiate himself? “A lot of the other candidates talk about the attorney general as if it’s a super-prosecutor,” Brodsky told reporters Tuesday outside the State Office Building. He had just held a ...
Brodsky Releases Privacy Platform
Journal News, August 18, 2010
Attorney general candidate Richard Brodsky today released a privacy platform that’s aimed at the Internet age. Brodsky, an assemblyman from Greenburgh, Westchester County, is one of five Democrats running for attorney general. In his policy paper, Brodsky writes that with changing mediums like the Web and new technology should make government officials rethink privacy laws. Brodsky is on a multi-county swing through upstate New York and is in Syracuse today. The information ...
Brodsky Wraps Up PEF Endorsement
The TImes Union - Capitol Confidential, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM by Casey Seiler The powerful Public Employees Federation cites Brodsky’s support for an initiative that would tighten up the state’s use of contractors, plus his reform push against public authorities, in its endorsement of the Westchester Democratic Assemblyman’s AG campaign. Eric Schneiderman, one of Brodsky’s four Democratic primary opponents, collected the endorsement of the health care workers union SEIU 1199. The other big dawg among ...
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky Questions Safety Systems Contracts
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, August 16, 2010
A state lawmaker is raising questions over the Monroe Security and Safety Systems Local Development Corp.’s bidding process after a recent communications contract was awarded to a company that submitted a significantly more expensive proposal. “There seems to be a lot of contract-letting that seems highly unusual,” said Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, Westchester County, on Sunday. “But I’m not going to prejudge.” Brodsky, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on ...
Staten Island Democrats Back Brodsky for Attorney General
Staten Island Advance, August 16, 2010
Over D.A. Dan Donovan, Staten Island Assembly Dems Back Brodsky for Attorney General Published: Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:16 AM Updated: Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:16 AM Judy L. Randall STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—An upstate assemblyman running in next month’s Democratic primary for state attorney general has locked up the support of his colleagues here, but two other influential Staten Island Democrats say they still don’t know if they’ll make an endorsement ...
Lawmakers Question Authorities Bonuses
The Buffalo News, August 09, 2010
Here is another article demonstrating Richard’s adamant stance against abuse by New York authorities and officials from the Buffalo News: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article96121.ece Lawmakers Question Authority Bonuses By Jay Rey August 08 2010, 12:00 AM Updated: August 08, 2010, 6:35 AM State lawmakers are probing deeper into why more than $5 million in bonuses was paid out last year to the staff of local public authorities. Letters were sent out Friday by downstate ...
Public Pay, Special Deals
The Times - Union, August 09, 2010
Please take the time to read about Richard’s recent actions to clean up Albany and our system of governance. It is an excellent example of how Assemblyman Brodsky can and will use his powers in the Attorney General’s office. Public pay, special deals By JAMES M. ODATO Capitol Bureau Published: 05:00 a.m., Monday, August 9, 2010 ALBANY—In the foothills of the struggling Catskills, Greene County legislators are up in arms that their county economic development chief is ...
Give N.Y.‘s energy a closer look
The Albany Times Union, August 07, 2010
Call this The $2 billion Question, and with that much money at stake, it should be answered carefully. Very carefully, since that money comes out of just about every New Yorker’s pocket. The question is whether New York’s electricity customers are better off or worse off as a result of the state’s creation of The New York Independent System Operator. The North Greenbush-based nonprofit runs the state’s wholesale electricity market. That question has been hanging ...
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