[CPEO-BIF] Buffalo, New York vs. Unshackle Upstate

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City bars business group from brownfield site
Opposes approach of reform advocates

By Brian Meyer
Buffalo New
May 11, 2008

Mayor Byron W. Brown's administration barred a business group stumping 
for statewide reforms from holding a news conference on a city-owned 
brownfield last week because the administration disagrees with its 
advocacy approach and claims the plan wasn't cleared with City Hall.

Andrew J. Rudnick, the head of the region's largest business group, 
claims he was told that the mayor's communications chief didn't want 
Unshackle Upstate to hold a Thursday news conference "anywhere in the city."

Peter K. Cutler said the administration did block plans by the coalition 
to stage its event at Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park but would never 
have tried to ban the group from meeting in the city.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/343910.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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