[BwayDems] West Siders for Schneiderman 12.3.09

[Alyson Spindell]

  WEST SIDERS FOR SCHNEIDERMAN

Please join us as we Honor
**
*State Senator **Eric T. Schneiderman*



*Thursday, December 3, 2009 *

*6:30-8:30pm*



At the home of Richard Emery and Melania Levitsky

514 West End Avenue, Penthouse (West 85th Street)





*$5000 Co-Chair     $1000 Champion      $500 Sponsor     **$250 Supporter
$100 Friend*

*www.schneiderman.org* <http://www.schneiderman.org/>**




Host Committee (in formation)

*Melissa Elstein and Eric Katzman                *

*Richard Emery and Melania Levitsky*

David Barrett

Hon. Gale Brewer

Hon. Tom Duane

Jethro Eisenstein

Hon. Ronnie Eldridge
Hon. Betsy Gotbaum
Marc Landis

Gerald Lefcourt

Harlan Levy

Gregg Mashberg

Hon. Daniel O'Donnell

Hon. Bill Perkins

Helen Rosenthal

Hon. Linda Rosenthal
Edward Wallace

*To Join the Host Committee or to RSVP, please contact 917-502-4558 or **
friendsofschneiderman*
<friendsofschneiderman at gmail.com><friendsofschneiderman at schneiderman.org>
*@**gmail.com* <http://gmail.com/>.

*"After a crippling month-long stalemate in Senate, Schneiderman, 54, has
emerged as a more central force. He is recognized by his colleagues and
those watching the Senate as one of its brainiest members…he has settled
into a role as political strategist, house legal geek and agitator for
progressive legislation like a weatherization bill and drug law
restructuring."*

*- New York Observer, Oct. 20, 2009*

*E**ric Schneiderman* grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side where he
attended Trinity School, and began his community activism as a 15-year-old
volunteer at  the Goddard Riverside Community Center.

After graduating from Amherst College, Eric served for two years as a Deputy
Sheriff in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he started the first
comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment program at the Berkshire House of
Corrections. He attended Harvard Law School, and then clerked for two years
in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He later
entered private practice and became a partner at the firm of Kirkpatrick and
Lockhart.

While in private practice, Eric served as counsel to a long list of advocacy
and public interest organizations. For over 10 years he was counsel to the
West Side Crime Prevention Program, using innovative legal tools to evict
drug dealers and clean up crack dens. As a founder of the Attorney General's
Anti-Crime Advocates program and a member of the board of the Lawyer's
Committee on Violence, Eric recruited and trained private attorneys to
represent community groups striving to protect their neighborhoods from
crime.

In 1993, he became President of the Board of the Public Policy and Education
Fund, which led the successful campaign for a managed care patients' bill of
rights in New York State. He served as a legal advisor to the Clean Money,
Clean Elections campaign for public financing of elections in 1998, and
acted as lead attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers campaign in a series of
historic lawsuits against the MTA.

Eric was elected to the New York State Senate in 1998, where he has served
on a variety of committees, including Environmental Conservation, Health and
Higher Education. He also served as the chair of the Democratic Senate
Campaign Committee and as the Deputy Minority Leader.

Eric's efforts were critical in passing the Clinic Access Bill, Hate Crimes
legislation, the Women's Health and Wellness Act, legislation to increase
the minimum wage, and a host of anti-illegal gun, environmental and civil
rights laws. He has been recognized for his work on legislation protecting
freedom of choice, fair funding for public schools, ethics reform, the
rights of immigrants and the expansion of affordable healthcare for all New
Yorkers. Eric has also been a leading advocate for rational and effective
gun laws, and serves as national co-chair of Legislators Against Illegal
Guns.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in January 2009, Eric became
Chair of the Senate Codes Committee, which considers legislation related to
the state's criminal and civil justice systems, as well as Deputy Majority
Leader for Policy. And just months after taking back the Senate, Eric
shepherded through sweeping reforms to the notorious Rockefeller Drug laws.
These reforms included an unprecedented expansion of drug treatment as an
alternative to prison, gave judges more discretion to divert non-violent
drug-addicts to treatment, and increased penalties for drug kingpins.

Eric lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his sixteen-year-old daughter
Catherine.







*Eric *
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