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LIA in the News - 2010
Statement from Matthew T. Crosson to LIA Members: Related to Las Vegas ChamberFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMelville, Long Island, NY March 16, 2010 CONTACT: Gary Wojtas 631.493.3020 Heather Shivokevich 631.493.3036
To the Members of the LIA: Today, I announced that I am leaving the LIA in April in order to become President of the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. When, last November, I said that I had decided to step down as LIA’s President sometime during 2010, I had no idea where life would take me. I did not expect my decision to lead me to Las Vegas, but I am grateful that it did. The Las Vegas Chamber is one of the largest and most respected chambers of commerce in the country. The City of Las Vegas, already a uniquely exciting destination, has extraordinary opportunities for future economic growth. I look forward to the prospect of leading that fine chamber and helping to grow Las Vegas into an even greater American city. For sixteen years, Long Island has been not just my professional focus; it has been my life. Leaving here is difficult, even painful. During those sixteen years, I have met thousands of you, heard your stories of success and challenge, and done my best to help you, and to help Long Island. You live and work in a very special place. Long Island is remarkable in so many ways. A talented, generous, compassionate people. Natural beauty and natural resources in abundance. Perhaps the nation’s finest educational system. A tradition and culture of innovation and economic resilience. Long Island will prosper; and you will prosper along with it. Of that I have no doubt. During my time at the LIA, I have tried to help restore Long Island’s confidence in its own future, as well as its high technology base in the 1990s; create an environment and infrastructure for sustained economic growth; create a working partnership between business and organized labor for economic development; bring the business and educational communities together, and keep them together; support high quality education as the foundation of Long Island’s future growth; encourage Long Island’s young people to stay here, and give them a reason to stay; help the public understand the need for affordable workforce housing and finally accept it within their communities; underscore the vital economic role of the not-for-profit community; and remind Long Islanders of the human and economic importance of tolerance and diversity as the population of this community continues to change. I hope that, in these efforts, I have had some success, and in doing so I have made your lives a bit easier, and your futures a bit more secure. I wish you all the best that a prosperous and joyful life has to offer. And I look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas.
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