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IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Louis Flores, 1-646-400-1168, lflores22@gmail.com

WHO IS DICK DADEY ? HOW INDEPENDENT IS CITIZENS UNION ?

New York, NY (July 22, 2013) LGBT blogger and activist Louis Flores has released a new YouTube video about Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey. This video stems from research published in Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn.
Link : http://youtu.be/OOg6EKotWCA

When Mr. Dadey was the executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, he was visible in the effort to redraw the boundaries of the Third City Council District in Manhattan that made it possible to elect an LGBT candidate for the first time from that district. In 1991, Tom Duane was elected to the New York City Council. At the time, Mr. Duanes campaign manager was Christine Quinn. In the time since, up to and including Mr. Dadeys term as the executive director of Citizens Union, Mr. Dadey has had a close association with Ms. Quinn, the present City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate. Earlier this year, information about the role that each of Mr. Dadey and the Pride Agenda had in the 1991 campaign to bring Mr. Duane and Ms. Quinn to power used to be found on the Pride Agendas Web site. But now that information has been deleted.
ESPA (old history) : http://goo.gl/oU8fCJ ESPA (new history) : http://goo.gl/LgJ8g3

Why was the Pride Agendas redistricting activities removed from its Web site ? Because of the close association that still exists between Mr. Dadey and Speaker Quinn, Mr. Flores questions the independence of Citizens Union, especially since each time that Speaker Quinns slush fund continues to lead to more public corruption cases, Mr. Dadey is always ready to provide political cover for Speaker Quinn. After The New York Post published a critical editorial of Speaker Quinns slush fund, hours later Mr. Dadey was quoted as defending Speaker Quinn in The New York Times. Another example follows where Speaker Quinns spokesperson used Mr. Dadeys own remarks to deflect responsibility away from Speaker Quinn for the on-going corruption tied to Speaker Quinns slush fund. See examples :
NYP : NYT : Politicker : http://goo.gl/CQlgSD http://goo.gl/krUAVt http://goo.gl/IuGJ30

This week, WNYC published an interactive online map documenting the extremely low voter turnout during the 2009 mayoral election.
Link : http://project.wnyc.org/non-voters/

August 8, 2013 Page 2 of 2 One of the reasons few citizens vote is because good-government groups like Citizens Union make a promise to be a watchdog over our government. Yet, under Mr. Dadeys leadership, Citizens Union was informed last week by the New York State Board of Elections that Citizens Union must register as a political action committee as a consequence of all of its electioneering activities. Among its questionable recent activities is the contemplation of endorsing one of its previous benefactors :
PAC Registration Link : Electioneering Link : http://goo.gl/Ppa1mw http://goo.gl/Fr1HT9

If Citizens Union is going to engage in political favoritism and make campaign endorsements, then how independent can Citizens Union remain under immense political pressures, including those of the Speaker Quinns political machine ? Other related links :
Mission Statement : Gay City News Profile : NYDN (Term Limits) : Crain's (Term Limits) : http://goo.gl/lPa58w http://goo.gl/dgl6Eu http://goo.gl/zE1msq http://goo.gl/HQ7cXw

During the 10 years that Mr. Dadey has been at Citizens Union and the 15 years that Speaker Quinn has been a councilmember, have any meaningful, transformational reforms been brought about to increase voter participation in the matters of our own governance ? Since its debut on Scribd, a free preview of Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn by Louis Flores has generated over 16,000 combined reads. The author was interviewed for an extensive article published in The BQ Brew, and research from Volume I inspired a front page article in The New York Times.
Link : http://goo.gl/XonXXL Link : http://goo.gl/F10R1z Link : http://goo.gl/MXmjP1

Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn is being serialized this summer in four volumes reminiscent of pamphleteering done in our tradition of bringing about political change. Roots of Betrayal : The Ethics of Christine Quinn can be purchased at : - Book Thug Nation, 100 N. Third Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn ; - Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers, 218 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn ; - St. Marks Bookshop, 31 Third Avenue, Manhattan ; and - Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, Manhattan. ###