Ezra Friedlander is the CEO of The Friedlander Group, a NYC and Washington DC based public policy consulting group.
So we have a PR lobbyist hack telling us not to accept the message due to deficiencies of the messenger.
Kettle, meet pot.
The rebuttal by YAFFED basically says to Ezra (who agrees there needs to be changes) to sit down with them and discuss how changes can be made.
End story, Ezra can spin however he wants. After all, that is what he was paid to do.