Press Release  ~ March 4, 2010

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For Immediate Release                                      Contact:  Shaun Marie
March 4, 2010                                                 518-356-7882     www.cpnys.org
 
 
Conservative Party Questions Attorney General Cuomo's
 Reluctance to Investigate Working Families Party
"Mr. Cuomo Has Opened Countless Investigations in His Tenure
. . .But He Has Been MIA Where the WFP is Concerned.  Why?"
 
Ft Hamilton Station, NY --  "It is the duty of New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D-WFP) to investigate credible allegations of fraud or illegal conduct made against not-for-profit entities throughout the state. So why hasn't Mr. Cuomo investigated highly credible allegations made against New York's Working Families Party by a respected state news organization?", New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long today asked.
 
Mr. Cuomo, who ran for Attorney General on the Working Families Party (WFP)line in 2006 - and who is widely expected to run for Governor on the line this year - has been repeatedly asked to investigate the WFP in recent months. The US Attorney's Office, which has also been asked, has since opened up a probe. 
 
The fiscal reform group New Yorkers for Growth has three times called upon Mr. Cuomo to look into "highly questionable activities" of the WFP that were reported in a multi-part series in the newspaper City Hall.
 
The City Hall series revealed, among other things, that the WFP " . . .shared resources and staff, and quiet money transfers [with] a secretive private company called Data and Field Services (DFS) and at least six current Council campaigns."  It also reported that the WFP may be illegally using non-profit corporations to circumvent political donation limits in order to give preferred candidates illegal advantages in Democratic primaries.
 
"Attorney General Cuomo has an obligation to the public to investigate the WFP, regardless of its past or future support of his candidacies," Chairman Long continued. "Serious allegations of political corruption have been raised against the Working Families Party and it is the Attorney General's sworn duty to investigate them. Mr. Cuomo has opened countless investigations during his tenure as Attorney General, but he has been Missing in Action where the Working Families Party is concerned.  It begs the question 'Why?'"
 

                                    

Conservative Party of New York State Press Release  ~ February 26, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~

For Immediate Release                                         Contact:  Shaun Marie February 26, 2010                                                518-356-7882     www.cpnys.org     CONSERVATIVE PARTY THE TIME FOR PATERSON TO GO IS NOW, NOT NEXT YEAR     Ft. Hamilton Station, NY - Statement of Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long:   "Governor Paterson got it half right.  Paterson doesn't deserve to be in office next year, but he doesn't deserve to be in office this year, either.   "New York is in a real economic crisis with job losses haunting families across the state.  And Paterson can't do anything to help by sticking around under an ethics investigation and stripped of all political credibility.   "It is time for Paterson to put the people of New York ahead of his personal interests.  It is time for him to go.   "An accidental Governor from the start, it is time Paterson help clean up the wreck.