NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum to Join Common Cause and Civic Groups to Deliver Citizen Petitions

NEW YORK, NY (10/21/2008)(readMedia)--

NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE BETSY GOTBAUM TO JOIN COMMON CAUSE, NYPIRG AND CIVIC GROUPS TO DELIVER CITIZEN PETITIONS CALLING ON THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR TO RESPECT DEMOCRACY

Common Cause will rally alongside good government and civic organizations, as well as NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, before delivering hundreds of petitions signed by NYC voters calling on the City Council to "Respect Democracy, Let the Public Debate and Vote on Term Limits Proposal." The full petition is available at: www.CommonCause.org/NY/TermLimitPetition.

WHO:

Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York 

Susan Lerner, Executive Director, Common Cause/New York

Gene Russianoff, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)

Dick Dadey, Executive Director, Citizens Union

Corey B. Bearak, Queens Civic Congress

And additional invited guests
WHEN: Wednesday October 22, 2008 at 10:30AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Steps of New York City Hall
New York, New York
NOTES:

Visual - Long scroll of the hundreds of names of New York City voters who have signed the "Respect Democracy" petition