Golisano

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No one fears business. Business lobbies covet that status, and they’r e now taking cues from unions on how toget “The only way to get issues reformed is by engaging in hard-noser political action. We have to understand that it’s all aboutf politics, not what’s right and says Andrew Rudnick. He headds a regional chamber of commerce in westernNew “The elected pay attention to job and threatening that is the only way we’lp change their behavior,” Rudnick says. The tough talk is at the centere of efforts to reinvent the tactics and strategies ofthe state’s business lobbies.
The groups are crafting a new politicall agenda, spurred on by unprecedented funding from abillionairew businessman. The first test will be in November when top state officialsx and all 212 state legislators will be upfor “We have to have a new businesds community activism,” says Kennetj Adams, president and CEO of The Business Counciol of New York State Inc. Business groups have talked of suchideas before, but they traditionally lack the cash to implemen t them. Billionaire Thomas Golisano is now tryinh tochange that. Golisano is founder of Rochester-based (NYSE: PAYX), a payroll processinf company. He’s had three unsuccessful runs for governor.
On June 11, Golisanp announced that he had joined a business advocacy grou p calledUnshackle Upstate. Privately, officials connected to the grouo say Golisano will give them atleast $6 milliomn to fund new politicao efforts. Calls to Golisano were not returned. Such a donation would equal TheBusinesds Council’s annual operating budget. In May, Golisanio changed his residencyto Florida. He says he will save $13,800p a day in personal incomde taxes. “I love New York, but I’jm not going to pay anymor e forthe waste, corruption and inefficiency that is New York stats government,” Golisano wrote on his blog.
Golisano then helpeed engineer the historic chaos that has gripped the state He played a role in convincing two Democrats to side with Republicansx on June 8 and attempt to overtakdethe chamber’s Democratic majority, paralyzing the legislative With Golisano’s backing, Rudnick, Adamse and others are working to convinces business groups to agreew on common issues. That alonr is a challenge: The statee is divided by stark regional differences, and so is the business “A lot of organizations get an ‘A’ for effort and an for results,” says of the . “Right now, there’s heart and but there’s no teeth.
” Rudnick, for one, believesw the recession is shakingv businesses out ofthat mind-set. He says his group, workinyg with Unshackle Upstate, has become “new friends” with downstatd groups that are joiningthe cause. “Until downstate was affecterd by the combination of the national recession and thestate budget, I don’t think there was enoughj business in the rest of New York to be influential,” Rudnici says.