Care about reforming Albany? Join us Tuesday night and support a true reformer and rising star, running in one of the most competitive 2010 NY State Senate races!
Regina Calcaterra is running for NY State Senate after spending her career on the side of the "little guy", representing victims of corporate fraud. Her unique personal experience - as a foster child who spend most of her youth in homeless shelters - combined with her deep convictions as a legal representative and advocate - make her one of the brightest stars of our generation here in New York.
Don't miss this chance to meet her on Tuesday - we'll be outdoors on the Red Sky roofdeck - see you there!
To learn more about Regina's campaign, visit www.reginacalcaterra.com
Program begins 7pm
$3 beers; $4 well drinks and Big Apple Martinis!
Free for Annual Members; $7/nonmembers
See you on the 11th!
About Regina:
As a corporate fraud lawyer, Regina successfully represented the pension funds of police, fire, teachers, correction, sanitation and labor union employees when their pensions suffered drastic losses due to Wall Street's fraud. Rather than asking New York taxpayers to cover the pension losses of those who keep us safe and educate our children, she was part of the team that went after the wrongdoers and won.
Regina was a member of the legal team that successfully litigated such high profile corporate fraud cases against WorldCom and Merrill Lynch and brought billions of dollars back to the pensions of union workers and government employees.
Regina's experience in protecting pensions began in the 1990's when she co-authored and successfully pressed for passage of laws that led to strong investment returns in the state pension funds.
She later counseled the executive management and board of directors of one of the state's biggest pension funds on issues related to state pension law while also serving the interest of retirees and their beneficiaries.
While attending Seton Hall Law School in the evenings, Regina served as Director of Legislative Affairs/Intergovernmental Relations for the New York City Comptroller. In just a few years, she co-authored and passed several laws that positively impacted government employees and union members and all New York taxpayers.
She advocated and pushed successfully for creative investment laws that increased the assets of the state pension funds for government employees and New York City treasury funds, while decreasing taxpayer contributions; for passage of legislation that substantially strengthened the enforcement of labor laws to ensure that workers were paid prevailing wages.
Regina spent her youth in and out of the Suffolk County foster care system with her four siblings. When not in foster care, Regina and her siblings experienced evictions, homelessness and homeless shelters. She remained in her final foster home in Centereach until she began college at age seventeen. She graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz four years later.