Cuomo's transition team continues to grow......is your name on the list below???
Liz Benjamin Capital Tonight
Part II of the Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo/LG-elect Bob Duffy transition team rollout came today with the announcement of three new committees that will recruit, review and recommend candidates to fill “top positions” in the following areas: Energy, environmental, public safety, human services and housing.
Among the members of these committees: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper and Cuomo’s ex-brother-in-law.
Kennedy briefly considered a run for AG in 2006, which would have been a primary of Titanic (and extremely personal) proportions. But that battle never materialized.
Both Cuomo and Kennedy were mentioned as potential replacements for then-US Sen. Hillary Clinton, but Gov. David Paterson ultimately gave the seat to then-Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand after a messy and prolonged selection process involving another Kennedy (Caroline).
Cuomo has been tapping a lot of big-name people for these transition committees. As the Times put it in an editorial Friday:
“This week, Mr. Cuomo created a transition team that includes so many diverse voices that it’s hard to imagine all 55 of them in one room coming up with a coherent way forward.”In today’s press release, Cuomo pronounced himself “grateful that so many leaders have pledged to help us build our administration,” adding:
“Republicans; Democrats; political, business and labor leaders; the New York City comptroller, John Liu; Mayor Byron Brown of Buffalo; and Ken Langone (former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s nemesis) are all on the team. Lt. Gov.-elect Robert Duffy will be in charge. We wish him luck.”
“These men and women bring a diverse range of experience, policy perspectives, and political ideologies to ensure that our Administration will be comprised of the best and the brightest minds and talent, committed above all to do what’s right for the people of the state of New York.”These committees will start meeting as early as next week. Additional committees of the transition will be announced in the coming days.
“I thank them for their service and look forward to working with them to help build a better New York.”
Here’s the list of the three committees and their respective members:
Public Safety
· Michael Balboni, former Senator, former Deputy Secretary for Public Safety
· Zachary Carter, former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
· Derek Champagne, Franklin County District Attorney; President, District Attorney’s Association of New York
· Rocco Diina, former Buffalo Police Chief
· Janet DiFiore, Westchester County District Attorney
· Louis Joseph Freeh, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
· Raymond Kelly, New York City Police Chief
· Peter King, U.S. House of Representatives
· Patrick Lynch, President, New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
· Robert Morgenthau, former Manhattan District Attorney
· Phil Ramos, New York State Assembly
· Christopher Stone, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, Harvard University
· Keith Wright, New York State Assembly
· Steve Younger, President, New York State Bar Association
Environment & Energy & Recreation
· Eddie Bautista, Executive Director, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance
· Carlton A. Brown, C.O.O., Full Spectrum NY
· Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director, New York League of Conservation Voters
· Robert B. Catell, Chairman of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at New York State University at Stony Brook
· Gavin Donohue, President and C.E.O., Independent Power Producers of New York
· John Dyson, Chairman and Director, Millbrook Capital Management
· Adriano Espaillat, NYS Assembly; Sen-Elect, NYS Senate
· Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
· David Hahn-Baker, Founder and President, Inside/Out Political Consultants
· Peter Goldmark, Program Director – Climate and Air, Environmental Defense Fund
· Ashok Gupta, Air and Energy Program Director and Senior Energy Economist, NRDC
· David Haight, New York Director, American Farmland Trust
· Bob Hallman, New York League of Conservation Voters
· Rhea Jezer, League of Conservation Voters; Member, Sierra Club
· Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper
· Susan Lawrence, Chair, Atlantic Chapter, Sierra Club
· Myles Lennon, Coordinator for Green Operations, Local 10 of the Laborers’ Union in New York City
· Anthony Malkin, President, Malkin Securities; owner Empire State Building
· Carol Murphy, Executive Director, Alliance for Clean Energy
· J. Andrew Murphy, Executive Vice President and Regional President, NRG Energy
· Peggy Shepard, Executive Director and Co-Founder, WE ACT
· Ned Sullivan, President, Scenic Hudson
· Lee Telega, Senior Extension Associate, Cornell University
· Dan Tishman, Chairman and C.E.O., Tishman Construction Corporation; Chairman, NRDC
· Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, MD, Chair, New York State Council of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Human Services & Housing
· Stuart Appelbaum, President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
· Charles Bell, Programs Director, Consumers Union
· Karim Camara, New York State Assembly
· Vivian Cook, New York State Assembly
· Susan Hagar, President, United Way of New York State
· Carl Heastie, New York State Assembly
· Nancy Hollander, Doctoral Candidate in School Clinical Child Psychology at the Serkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University
· Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
· Christopher Kui, Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality
· Ross Levi, Executive Director, Empire State Pride Agenda and Foundation
· Kevin Leyden, Immediate Past President, Parsons Child and Family Center
· Duncan Mackenzie, C.E.O., New York State Association of Realtors
· Grace Meng, New York State Assembly
· Christine Quinn, Speaker, New York City Council
· Rossana Rosado, Publisher, El Diario
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