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 ...

Brodsky Receives Endorsement of Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion – Choice Matters

Press Release, August 30, 2010

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) and candidate for Attorney General, today announced the endorsement of the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion (WCLA) – Choice Matters.  WCLA is known throughout the United States for its strong advocacy work on ensuring a woman’s right to chose.  The organization has been a leader since the very beginning of the Pro-Choice movement in New York and continues to lead the way on this very important issue. “I’ve been ...

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 ...