Grassroots Group React to Indictment of Committee to Save New York Lobbyist Richard Lipsky

NEW YORK, NY (03/10/2011)(readMedia)-- The New Deal for New York campaign, which recently released "The Committee to Scam New York: How the Committee to Save New York's Corporate Elites Dodge Taxes, Score Handouts, Get Bailed Out, and Still Want More," released the following statement regarding the expected indictment of Richard Lipsky, a registered lobbyist recently hired by the Committee to Save New York:

"By all accounts, Mr. Lipsky has been an adamant fighter for his causes and his clients. But, like too many in Albany nowadays, Mr. Lipsky has been fighting by his own rules, not the rules on the books -- as weak as they are.

"These indictments are symptomatic of both Albany's political class that too often seems to seek office for their own benefit, but also of the entitled business class that believes our state government is there to serve their company's bottom lines, not the common good. For Mr. Lipsky and his cohorts at the Committee to Save New York, this means that for government rules they don't agree with, they have two clear options: Break the rules or re-write them. Today, Mr Lipsky and Sen. Kruger were caught breaking the rules and tomorrow they will be indicted.

"Sadly, Mr Lipsky's cohorts at the Committee to Save New York will be right back tomorrow morning to where they were yesterday: re-writing the rules for their own benefit, not for the public good, and doing it all the while with the governor's blessing. It is beyond time for Mr Cuomo to encourage the disbandment of this Committee to Scam New York. They are not acting in the public interest, and we need our Governor to stand up and say so."

The New Deal for New York campaign is developing innovative jobs and revenue generation proposals that will respond to the needs of all of New York's communities in order to help our state recover from the economic downturn and its present-day revenue crisis. Its endorsing organizations include the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Community Transformation of Syracuse (ACTS), Community Voices Heard (CVH), Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH), People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH), Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN), Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL), and VOICE-Buffalo, and organize in communities in Buffalo, New York City, Newburgh, Niagara Falls, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse, and Westchester County.

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