(excerpt from) IthacaJournal.com
Fracking foes target Cuomo visit
Gubernatorial candidate to campaign in Ithaca, Montour Falls Thursday
by Stacey Shackford / August 16, 2010, 6:20 pm
via Daily Politics
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to visit Tompkins County on Thursday as part of a statewide tour to support his campaign for governor.
The Democrat will be appearing at the Women’s Community Building, at 100 W. Seneca St. in Ithaca, at 11 a.m. before moving on to Montour Falls for a 12:30 p.m. visit to Montour House.
He will likely be greeted by local anti-gas drilling activists, who are organizing a rally outside of the building starting at 10:15 a.m.
Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting…
“Andrew Cuomo needs our votes to get elected governor, but he has taken a pro Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofracking position that is shockingly weak on environmental and public health protection,”…
Reporter Stacey Shackford can be reached at: sshackford at gannett dot com
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