The Bill Andrew Gounardes Didn’t Tell Us He Wrote for His Friends
If you know someone who is an attorney, they may volunteer to work for free. People who were admitted to the NYS Bar after 2015 are required to do 50 hours of pro bono work.
Andrew Gounardes likes to tell us he wrote a lot of bills, but who is looking into what these bills are about? Every time I look, I find bills that are not for our community.
On January 26th, he wrote this bill for some individual while our community can not get Andrew to help us. (See bill here)
Apparently some person who is doing volunteer legal work thinks that they deserve a tax break if they work on harassment or discrimination cases. That capitalist should not be volunteering.
I am so tired of our senate seat being misused by politicians who think they can write bills for their friends or Political PACs or gerrymander for themselves.
We need someone who is interested in our community and representing us.
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Hugs,
marlene
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April 23rd, 2022 at 1:08 am
I think the 50 hour requirement is just for sitting the bar exam for newbies. Pro Bono work is otherwise voluntary.
But you’re right about Gounardes burying it. He makes no mention of this bill in his weekly updates for the relevant time periods:
https://agounardes.medium.com/what-we-did-in-albany-this-week-week-of-1-28-47b764257e71
https://agounardes.medium.com/what-we-did-in-albany-this-week-week-of-1-21-812d515b02be