ZABLOCKI TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDING CFB DEBATES

October 19, 2009

FOR SCHEDULING

Contact:           Alex Zablocki

                        347-885-1200

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

ZABLOCKI TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE BOARD CALLING FOR REFORMS TO THE CFB PROGRAM; ZABLOCKI TO POINT OUT THAT BILL DE BLASIO VOTED FOR AN UNDEMOCRATIC BILL IN 2004 TO RESTRICT DEBATE AND WAS THE PRIME SPONSOR OF LEGISLATION IN 2005 THAT EXEMPTED UNIONS FROM THE SAME AFFILIATION STANDARDS  AS CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS

 

Who:               Alex Zablocki

                        Republican candidate for Public Advocate

 

Where:            NYC Campaign Finance Board

                        40 Rector Street

                        Manhattan

 

When:             Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4pm

 

What:

 

Alex Zablocki, Republican candidate for Public Advocate, to hold a press conference at the Campaign Finance Board in Lower Manhattan to update the press on the status of the Public Advocate's debate that was to be hosted by WABC this Friday.  Zablocki will call for reforms to the CFB program and point out that Councilman Bill de Blasio voted for Intro. 124-A in 2004, which placed a "price tag" on debates and eliminated one of the two mandatory run-off debates.  Zablocki will also call for a ban on union contributions and point out that Councilman de Blasio refused was the prime sponsor of Intro 564 in 2005 that exempted unions from the same affiliation standards as corporations under the CFB program. The same unions this bill supported helped fund much of de Blasio's campaign.

 

A photographer is respectfully requested.

 

 

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