Trouble On The Road To Ethics Reform
The Senate Democrats are behind closed doors conferencing the ethics bill that is supposed to come up for a vote this afternoon and it is not going well, the DN's Glenn Blain reports. A highly-placed...
View ArticleEthics War
Less than an hour after the Senate ended its prolonged debate (both in public and in private) over the legislative ethics reform bill and followed the Assembly's lead in passing it, Gov. David Paterson...
View ArticleWho The Heck Is Jack Quinn?
"A Band-aid on a bullet wound" is how Assemblyman Jack Quinn, a Buffalo Republican, describes the legislative ethics bill approved by both houses of the Legislature yesterday with just three "no" votes...
View ArticleClock Ticks On Ethics Bill
Just hours after the Legislature passed an ethics reform bill, Gov. David Paterson pledged to veto it "once it has been delivered to my desk." Well, what is he waiting for? The bill reached Paterson's...
View ArticleEthics Reform Goes Down To The Wire
Gov. David Paterson this morning confirmed he's in eleventh-hour negotiations with the Legislature to reform an ethics reform bill he has vowed to veto. The deadline for him to act on the measure -...
View ArticleQuinn: Seabrook Wouldn't Happen Now
Council Speaker Christine Quinn insisted today that all of the discretionary fund-releated crimes with which members or staffers have been charged would not be possible today due to post-slush fund...
View ArticleSenate Dems Tie Targets To Bruno, Seminerio (Updated)
An upstate reader forwarded this mailer that arrived at his home last week and is in keeping with the new effort by the Senate Democrats to tie their Republican counterparts to recent Albany ethics...
View ArticleKoch's Fix Albany Agenda
A reader forwarded the suggested agenda items for tomorrow's meeting on reforming state government that is being convened at the offices of Bryan Cave by former Mayor Ed Koch, Citizens Union Executive...
View ArticleA Good Challenger Is Hard To Find
Former Mayor Ed Koch revealed today that he is having a difficult time recruiting reform-minded challengers for the campaign to fix Albany he is spearheading along with a host of like-minded good...
View ArticleKoch's "New York Uprising" Gets Social (Networked)
Former Mayor Ed Koch's new clean-up-Albany PAC, New York Uprising, hit the Facebook and Twitter scenes today. On kickoff day, we reported Koch and friends (Dick Dadey of Citizens Union and former...
View ArticleNew Deputy Mayor's Book Flying Off The Shelf... In Room 9, Anyway
Stephen Goldsmith is not only the newest member of Mayor Bloomberg’s squadron of deputy mayors (the number is back to seven again) -- he’s also a huge fan of the mayor’s way of governing. How can you...
View ArticleHey, Anyone Seen Andrew?
There was one famous face missing from today’s “Albany on the Record” reform conference: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was the only one of the major elected state leaders not to attend the...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo: "The Survival of New York Is at Stake"
Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo has a piece posted late last night on HuffPo that's a defense of his candidacy based on the argument that -- surprise -- New York government's...
View ArticleSenate Dems Target Marty Golden, GOP On Reform
The state Democratic Party has rolled out a new web vid which pushes Senate Republicans to adopt reforms -- and may have Brooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden wishing he didn't get that foot massage the...
View ArticleHow Should NY Government Be Streamlined? Have Your Say On New SAGE Page
Gov. Cuomo's SAGE Commission on how to make New York government more efficient has a new website where YOU can give your suggestions on cleaning up the mess. "As I have said repeatedly, right-sizing...
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