"Richard Brodsky" is an American politician who represented District 92 in the New York State Assembly, which includes the towns of Greenburgh, New York/Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, New York/Mount Pleasant, the villages of Ardsley, New York/Ardsley, Elmsford, New York/Elmsford, Dobbs Ferry, New York/Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York/Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, New York/Irvington, Tarrytown, New York/Tarrytown, as well as parts of Briarcliff Manor, New York/Briarcliff and Yonkers, among other communities located in Westchester County, New York. Brodsky did not seek reelection to the Assembly in 2010, instead unsuccessfully running for the Democratic nomination for New York Attorney General.

Richard Brodsky is on the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation. In 2010, Brodsky became a Senior Fellow at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Additionally, in April 2011, Brodsky joined non-partisan public policy organization Demos (U.S. think tank)/Demos as Fellow#Research fellow/Senior Fellow. He writes regularly for Demos' "Policy Shop" weblog and is a columnist for The Capitol.

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We have evidence of compensation to top management when, as far as I know, firemen and police of the city got no extra bonuses for doing worse, more grotesque work.

With gas prices as high as they are, we want to do everything we can to take away artificial inflators and this (zone pricing) is one of them.

We're not at the drafting stage. I think we're moving toward the conceptual stage of what we need to do.

Now we have proof and evidence that these authorities have been used as cash cows and patronage mills by the Pataki administration.

So if the Legislature had a history of cutting the budget, the Business Council would be in favor of the amendment? ... You don't set up the rules for a democracy based on getting the particular outcome you want. That's just not thinking.