Hedge Clippers Group to Protest Cuomo's East Hampton Fundraiser

The Hedge Clippers, a New York City based advocacy group, will be protesting a fundraising event for Governor Andrew Cuomo at the home of Hedge Fund billionaire, Dan Loeb in East Hampton on Saturday.

The group works to “expose the mechanisms hedge funds and billionaires use to influence government and politics in order to expand their wealth, influence and power,” according to their website.

They are expecting over 200 people to join their protest and have set up buses to transport protesters to the event.

They also plan to have two planes with air banners flying above the event, according a spokesperson from the group.

They will be attacking both Cuomo and Loeb for their “contribution to income and income inequality”, according to the spokesperson.

According to the group, Loeb has donated money to Cuomo to push policies to privatize education, which effects the poor and working class.

“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 Hedge Clippers wrote in a flyer posted on their Facebook page. “We’ll be there to crash it.”

This isn’t the first time the group has ’crashed’ one of Cuomo’s fundraising events. A few months ago, the group protested another event in New York City.