Protest Planned for Cuomo Fund-Raiser in East Hampton Saturday

Anti-hedge fund, pro-labor advocates plan to "take the Hamptons" on Saturday in protest of Gov. Andrew M. Coumo's fund-raiser at the East Hampton residence of Daniel Loeb, a hedge fund manager. 

The Hedge Clippers, a New York City group that is working to expose how billionaire hedge funders influence government and politics to increase their own wealth, will demonstrate near Mr. Loeb's Highway Behind the Pond house at Two Mile Hollow Beach at 6 p.m. East Hampton Village police said Wednesday evening that there has been no permit requested for the protest yet. 

Hedge Clippers is backed, according to The New York Times, by the American Federation of Teachers and Zephyr Teachout, who ran against Governor Cuomo in 2014. There are three buses planning to pick up protestors in the Bronx, New York City, and Brooklyn, on Saturday mornings, and another bus leaving Hempstead and picking up in Brentwood that afternoon.

"Right after the end of a legislative session where Andrew Cuomo spent his time in Albany attacking public schools and breaking his promises to working families, he's jetting off to the Hamptons for a $5,000-a-plate fund-raiser hosted by his billionaire backers," the group wrote in an announcement on its Facebook page. "We'll be there to crash it." 

VOCAL NY and New York Communities for Change are also taking part in the protest, according to Capital New York, which noted that Mr. Loeb is "a powerful charter school advocate." He is the chairman of the board at Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy and serves on the board at StudentsFirstNY.