The job of continuing to turn around New York’s anti-business image is a difficult task to say the least but, some one from downstate does not have a clue to upstates woes…

Do we have any reresentation left in Albany? Our delegation sure falls short of doing their job..

Changing of the guard
Business leaders in New York change with the political climate by picking a Brooklyn Democrat to lead an influential lobby

With a gubernatorial election little more than a month away, New Yorkers are gearing up for a major shift in the political landscape.

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More quietly, New York’s businesses are preparing for their own shift.

At its annual meeting Sept. 20, the Business Council of New York State elected a successor to Daniel B. Walsh, 71, who is stepping down at the end of the year after 19 years heading the state’s largest business lobby.

Kenneth Adams, the 46-year-old president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, will inherit the job of continuing to turn around New York’s anti-business image.

The appointment of the downstate business official — a registered Democrat, no less — is in part a knock at the organization’s reputation as an upstate body. It also hints at a business lobbying group gearing up for influence with the next governor, whom many presume will be Democrat Eliot Spitzer.

Walsh, a former Assembly Democrat from western New York, said it’s all of that, and none of it.