David Seidemann Comments on the PSC's Use of CUNY's E-mail

Dear Mitchell,

To reinforce your argument, allow me to point out two things:

1) The Second Circuit Carroll case regarding NYPIRG funding specifies that NYPIRG is an ideologic organization.

2) An internal NYPIRG memo leaked to the press in the mid 1990s shows, among many things damaging to NYPIRG, that it uses its classroom pitches as a recruitment tool.

Further, there is now a court case pending that addresses CUNY's entanglement with NYPIRG and the variety of First Amendment violations that flow from that.

David